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JULIUS CAESAR VARIETY SHOW

Dublin Fringe Festival

The New Theatre, Dublin: 11  – 14 September, 2024

Written and Directed by Joy Nesbitt

In JULIUS CAESAR VARIETY SHOW, a Black actor, a Woman actor, and a Straight White Male actor walk into a Shakespeare audition. What could go wrong?


Three actors from diverse backgrounds audition for a role in Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Amidst a riot outside the theatre, they face an intensely respected director who is determined to reinvent the play through “unorthodox” methods, often at the expense of the actors' personal integrity. The audition becomes a battleground where the actors' identities are scrutinized, with an accompanist intensifying the director’s demands. As they navigate the director’s expectations, the actors grapple with how their identities alter the meaning of a play and the role that diversity and inclusion plays in reshaping the theatre industry.

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Virgin Media Discovers Top 10 Shortlist

Virgin Media and Keeper Pictures

Virgin Media Discovers, in partnership with Screen Ireland, is a competition that helps new and established filmmakers and content creators get their stories heard.

The shortlisted projects for Virgin Media Discovers have been announced.

Shortlisted projects will be awarded mentorship and development funding to invest in their script. The panel of industry judges will select four winners, who will win between €35,000 and €40,000 to fund the production of their short film or documentary.

Knife (Comedy)
Writer: Joy Nesbitt, Producer: Grace Odumosu

Ife, a young black woman goes for her first pregnancy scan, only to discover that her child is brandishing a knife inside her womb.

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"Short, snappy scenes, cleverly awash in pop culture references, bleed into each other to make a cinematic styled whole. Yet under Joy Nesbitt’s shrewdly paced direction, it all coheres wonderfully onstage. [...] Showing acute directorial acumen, Nesbitt understands the strength of Pringle’s script lies not in what's said, smart, funny and incisive as that is, but in what's being left unsaid. What cannot be said, especially when characters don’t know what they really want to say."

— THE ARTS REVIEW, "Boyfriends Review"

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