Dublin Dance Festival had its first event for Friends on Friday, October 2. The Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival kindly treated DDF’s Friends as if we were their own so that we could experience the phenomenon that is DV8.

To Be Straight With You proved a powerful, often violent and beautiful work – vignettes of spoken word and dance conjuring characters and events that were variously shocking, disturbing, humorous, full of fear and sometimes glimmering with hope.  The ‘In Conversation’ session that took place beforehand with Artistic Director Lloyd Newson (moderated by the omnipresent Caroline Williams) provided insight into the factual background of the work without giving too much away.  It was a great chance to see some world-class dance theatre and catch up after the summer.

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