Dublin Gay Theatre Festival
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The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival is an annual theatrical event held in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. Usually held in May, the 5th festival was held from May 5th - 18th, 2008. 42 productions participated in the 2008 festival, staging over 200 individual perfomances and events. Over 80% of the festival's content comes from outside Ireland.
According to its official website, the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival provides "theatrical and academic fora for the presentation of new and exciting works by gay authors, or works that have a gay character, theme, relevance or other input by a gay artist to promote visiblilty and recognition of gay people's contribution to the arts nationally and internationally."
The festival was founded in 2004 in order to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Oscar Wilde, and to encourage and develop concepts of gay theatre. The image of Oscar Wilde was first used as the official festival logo in 2006 and remains so today.
The festival's patrons are Senator David Norris, Emma Donoghue and Terrence McNally.
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