Myself and John were having the usual post-rehearsal chat last night the eventually wound its way around to one-acts, festivals theatre, getting out and about – all of which reminded me that the Dublin Fringe Festival is looking for submissions for this year’s programme of events with Absolut Fringe running from September 11th – 26th in various venues around Dublin City.

Here’s their blurb…

Dublin Fringe Festival is delighted to welcome submissions for the 2010 edition of ABSOLUT Fringe, running from 11-26 September. For two weeks in September Dublin will be captivated by theatre, dance, music, visual art, live art and street performance from Ireland and around the globe. We invite you to join us in making it happen.

Dublin Fringe Festival has always been the natural home of artists who are ambitious, adventurous, innovative and fearless, and who make work in all kinds of places and spaces around Dublin city. This year, a continued emphasis will be placed on new work that reclaims more of our city’s empty spaces and experiments with performance and experiential arts on a grand and minute scale.

In 2010 the festival will have a particular focus on works that engage with the theme of community, to be interpreted as liberally and imaginatively as possible by the artists we work with. Too often ‘community’ becomes a byword for disadvantage and exclusion where the myriad possibilities of community, both on and offline are ignored. Dublin Fringe Festival would like to re-imagine the idea of community in 2010. To do this, we need you, artists and thinkers, to make it happen. We want to hear your ideas whether you work in theatre, music, dance, visual art, street-art, film, multi-media or beyond.

The deadline for applications is 6pm on Friday March 12th so you’ve a few weeks to go yet. For anyone interested in apply, the organisers have a pre-application workshop taking place on Wednesday February 10th at 6:30pm with the festival site also providing an online FAQ, a guide to venues and of course, the online application.

Devious road trip to Dublin? C’est possible (says he in an out-rrrrrageous French accent)…