{"id":26511,"date":"2018-05-06T19:51:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T18:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=26511"},"modified":"2018-05-06T19:54:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T18:54:28","slug":"brian-merriman-from-the-dublin-gay-theatre-fest-talks-to-the-arts-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=26511","title":{"rendered":"Brian Merriman from the Dublin Gay Theatre Fest talks to The Arts Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/gayttheatre.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26515\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/gayttheatre-300x110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/gayttheatre-300x110.jpg 300w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/gayttheatre-170x62.jpg 170w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/gayttheatre-90x33.jpg 90w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/gayttheatre.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaytheatre.ie\">Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival<\/a> is the biggest gay theatre festival in the world.\u00a0 2018 is big year for the festival and a year of celebration, marking 15 years of IDGTF and 25 years since decriminalisation of homosexuality in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>In this year&#8217;s programme they explore the diverse lives of LGBT people today \u2013 through comedy, drama, short-plays and powerful stories from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Norma Burke spoke to the Founding Artistic Director Brian Merriman on The Arts Show ahead of the launch and played a clip of Stephen Masterson performing an except from the play <em>A Gentleman Caller,\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0which was recorded at the launch event at <a href=\"https:\/\/theorigingallery.com\/\">Origin Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7181\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Gaytheatrefestpodcast.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7181','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Gaytheatrefestpodcast.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Gaytheatrefestpodcast.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=26511-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Gaytheatrefestpodcast.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Gaytheatrefestpodcast.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 13:18 &#8212; 18.3MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival is the biggest gay theatre festival in the world.\u00a0 2018 is big year for the festival and a year of celebration, marking 15 years of IDGTF and 25 years since decriminalisation of homosexuality in Ireland. In this year&#8217;s programme they explore the diverse lives of LGBT people today \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7182\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Gaytheatrefestpodcast.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7182','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Gaytheatrefestpodcast.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Gaytheatrefestpodcast.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=26511-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Gaytheatrefestpodcast.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Gaytheatrefestpodcast.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 13:18 &#8212; 18.3MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9218],"tags":[3508,10354,10353,10352,3049],"class_list":["post-26511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-arts-show","tag-brian-merriman","tag-decriminalisation","tag-steve-masterson","tag-the-dublin-gay-international-theatre-festival","tag-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26511"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26516,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26511\/revisions\/26516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}