📢💥We’re thrilled to share that smash-hit WAKE lands on Australian shores this January, as a headline show in the Sydney Festival’s 50th Anniversary Season💥
Catch it at Carriageworks Bay 17 from 14-25 January 2026.

Tell your cousins, tell your mates - leave no diaspora unturned. www.waketheshow.com

Octupus Children @felispeaks.bsky.social @thisispopbaby.bsky.social is dripping in holy water, stardust and rhythm. ❤️

A love letter to the Black, Irish and queer communities On this week's Out & Proud, poet, performer and playwright Felicia Olusanya aka Felispeaks sits down with Trevor Keegan.

"Octopus Children is... a poetic landscape, but it's a coming-of-age story, and it's a love letter to the Black, Irish and queer communities."
FELISPEAKS was on @rteradio1.bsky.social Out and Proud last Saturday – read/listen back here!

Coming soon to Dublin Fringe:
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A love letter to the Black, Irish and queer communities On this week's Out & Proud, poet, performer and playwright Felicia Olusanya aka Felispeaks sits down with Trevor Keegan.

"Octopus Children is... a poetic landscape, but it's a coming-of-age story, and it's a love letter to the Black, Irish and queer communities."
FELISPEAKS was on @rteradio1.bsky.social Out and Proud last Saturday – read/listen back here!

Coming soon to Dublin Fringe:
www.rte.ie/lifestyle/li...

FeliSpeaks: Life as a ‘black, Irish, queer culchie’ Felicia Olusanya, aka FeliSpeaks, has created a show with thisispopbaby for the Dublin Fringe, exploring what it is like to grow up as a ‘queer black Irish midlands culchie’

A gorgeous feature interview with FELISPEAKS, covering all things Octopus Children, coming to Project Arts Centre as part of Dublin Fringe Festival this September. Tickets selling fast!

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What a shot of sheer joy Riot is. Part comedy, aerial show, political pulpit, circus… and a mankini. Full of heart, energy and craft. Ends tomorrow - well done @pantibliss.bsky.social @thisispopbaby.bsky.social @emmetkirwan.bsky.social Lords of Strut, Omar Cortes Gonzalez, The Sirens, Up & Over It.

Performers from Riot on stage, standing in a circle.

Saw ‘Riot’ last night at Vicar Street. Wildly entertaining, a circus for grownups! Specifically Irish too. Highly irreverent, hugely relevant to our times. @pantibliss.bsky.social & @emmetkirwan.bsky.social on top form. Plus AMAZING sean nós dancers!

@thisispopbaby.bsky.social

Some of my images for the incredible show RIOT, made in collaboration with Niall Sweeney for @thisispopbaby.bsky.social. Extra tickets have just been released for the last two shows in Vicar Street, tonight and tomorrow - grab them if you can!

Tonight I’ve been to #RIOTtheSHOW at Vicar Street by @thisispopbaby.bsky.social with an amazing team and @pantibliss.bsky.social behind it. Created & directed by Jennifer Jennings and @phillymcmahon.bsky.social. It was a blast, a must! If there’re any tickets left for tomorrow, don’t think twice 🪩

Riot last night was fantastic.
Imagine pool noodle Jesus doing Cirque du Soleil to an 80’s soundtrack interrupted occasionally by a tracksuit top buzzed up Poet,
@emmetkirwan.bsky.social and all led brilliantly by incoming Irish president @pantibliss.bsky.social

@thisispopbaby.bsky.social

Announcing: OCTOPUS CHILDREN by FELISPEAKS atDublin Fringe Festival💥

Written by FELISPEAKS, Octopus Children follows Young Felicia coming of age as a queer, ‘Black Irish midlands culchie’ grappling with their identity, led by a wise guide: The Octopus.

Book now: www.fringefest.com/fest.../what...

Panti Bliss: ‘I don’t care if companies pull out of Pride parades. I am more concerned for the queer people who work in those companies’ Rory O’Neill, also known as Panti Bliss, is a drag queen and LGBTQ+ activist from Ballinrobe, Co Mayo. He owns Pantibar in Dublin city centre, and has been vocal about the conversation around HIV sin...

Our @pantibliss.bsky.social in the Indo at the weekend!
Just two weeks til RIOT is back at Vicar St and tickets are getting scarce.

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Word's Out: Tickets are flying for RIOT at Vicar St, and our final best-priced tickets (€34.95 + fees –€41 on Ticketmaster) are about to sell out across all shows.

Premiere (49.95 +bf) & Ringside (59.95 + bf) are also selling fast💫

Grab yours before they're gone
www.ticketmaster.ie/riot-tickets...

Funding & Development Opportunities for Theatre Artists — THISISPOPBABY We know how tricky it can be to keep up with the ever-shifting world of funding and creative support—so we’ve done a bit of digital foraging on your behalf. Like good magpies, we’ve gathered links, tw...

We've updated our list of funding & development opportunities for artists!

Feat. @axisballymun.bsky.social
@createireland.bsky.social Culture Ireland, Safe to Create, NASC touring network + more

If you know of an opp. we should include, ping us & we'll add it!
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We're thrilled to announce that Clinch Wealth Management is proudly hosting #RIOTtheSHOW this July 💖

Clinch is a great supporter of the arts & Dublin's cultural life – we can't wait to work with the team on the return of our big, entertaining night out www.thisispopbaby.com/show-listing...

Go raibh míle maith agaibh as teacht!💫

WAKE - Aviva Studios, Manchester - The Reviews Hub Creators and directors: Jennifer Jennings and Phillip McMahon with text from Carys D Coburn Choreographer: Philip Connaughton A wake is a ritual social gathering, held before a funeral, at which famil...

#CIRCUS #REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ WAKE Factory International - Aviva Studios @thisispopbaby.bsky.social www.thereviewshub.com/wake-aviva-s... "celebrates not only the joy of life but its chaotic, anarchic nature… a reflection not so much of the sombre circle of life, more the giddy circus of life" #Manchester

WAKE WAKE ia an adrenalin filled celebration by Dublin based company ThisIsPopBaby. A wild trip to a cèilidh that must surely be fuelled on mind bending Irish moonshine.

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Can't think of a better way to celebrate the dead than at #WAKE @thisispopbaby.bsky.social Currently at Factory International

Wake review – Irish dance takes a raucous, pole-dancing rollercoaster ride Gleefully exploding traditional funeral rites, Thisispopbaby deploy styles from stepdance to pole dance to upend expectations of Irish culture

Fantastic review of @thisispopbaby.bsky.social’s Wake on the West End

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📢WAKE goes to Manchester!🌟
We are delighted to announce that our smash hit show WAKE will show at Manchester's incredible Aviva Studios, the home of Factory International, from 17-21 April 2025.

Generously supported by Culture Ireland

Tickets on sale now: waketheshow.com

If you've missed this in the past, this is your chance. You won't regret it.

Can’t believe we’re going to get the chance to do it again

On sale now: RIOT.
The show that stole the hearts and blew the minds of a nation returns to Vicar Street in July 2025.

Four nights only – book now: thisispopbaby.com/book-now/

⚡️RIOT 2025 is on sale NOW.⚡️
Four nights only at Vicar Street - 17-20 July.

Don't miss the legend that is RIOT – book now:
thisispopbaby.com/book-now/

See you there!✨

📢NEWS: The show that stole the hearts and blew the minds of a nation is back!

Our all-star RIOT squad is reforming for four glittering nights on 17-20 July in Vicar Street ⚡️❤️‍🔥

Pre-Sale for all subscribers from 8.30am this Friday 6 Dec: mailchi.mp/17a6c27163f6...

#RIOTtheShow

We meet at the barricades once again. Dispatch coming soon.

@pantibliss.bsky.social global takeover takes an Antipodean turn. Join us in Melbourne, North Brunswick, Auckland & Sydney! We are not there for a long time, just a good time. Limited engagement in each stop.

Booking via thisispopbaby.com/book-now/

Tour generously supported by Culture Ireland

The graphic headline Wake is Gatecrashing the West End is written over a photo of a a shiny mirrorball. The discoball is surrounded by five-star reviews for WAKE.

Heard the news?
Our award-winning, smash-hit show WAKE is coming to Peacock Theatre at Sadler's Wells in 2025.

Get the gang together for a wild night out on the West End.✨

Book now to get the best seats at the best prices:
www.sadlerswells.com/whats-on/thi...

📢Tickets for WAKE on the West End are on sale now!📢

Our West End debut atSadler's Wells Peacock Theatre is going to be a joyous meeting point for the Irish massive in London, as well as anybody who loves a great night out at the theatre.

Join us – book now:
www.sadlerswells.com/whats-on/thi...