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Dublinitgirl vs Dartlinediva: Rap Battle Royale

Sun, 7 Sep - Wed, 10 Sep

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Meet dublinitgirl, genderqueer icon.   Recently, she’s hung up her 365 party girl boots. Ever since she met her county player, she’s turned into a trad wife. But he has a sordid past: meet dartlinediva, stun-hun extraordinaire. See, she wasn’t too happy when he dropped her for a… well, she wouldn’t…

Meet dublinitgirl, genderqueer icon.  

Recently, she’s hung up her 365 party girl boots. Ever since she met her county player, she’s turned into a trad wife. But he has a sordid past: meet dartlinediva, stun-hun extraordinaire. See, she wasn’t too happy when he dropped her for a… well, she wouldn’t want her choice of words in print.

So what happens when Dublin’s messiest queens turn on one another? And shouldn’t they know better by now? Never fight over a man . . . .

This show is a queer feminist discourse expressed through the highly sexualised and highly confrontational language of a twenty first century rap battle. Starring Harry Hennessy and Rita Lynn, alongside DJ Polyp. Written and directed by Harry Hennessy, composed in collaboration with RÓISTailtiuRory SweeneyRob Mulhern and Risteárd Ó hAodha.

Harry Hennessy is a queer writer and performer from Dublin, Ireland. They have an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from the Tisch School of Performing Arts at NYU. Music from their rap-musical Illumination was featured as a part of a musical revue at the Off-Broadway theatre Joe’s Pub in 2023. Recent work includes Son of the Land, an immersive work of participatory theatre presented as a part of the Earth Rising Festival 2024 at IMMA, Ar An Dé Deiridh, an Irish language play-with-music, which toured South Connemera in June 2025, and Cuckcrow as part of Scene and Heard 2025. Harry recently completed a week of development in Dublin FringeLab for their latest play, Mo Chac, with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival and the Arts Council of Ireland, and has collaborated extensively with singer RÓIS, writing on Keening a Dead Town (RÓIS X Crash Ensemble), and performing together at Open Ear, Bristol’s the Cube, London’s Paper Dress Vintage, Beyond the Pale, Skibbereen Arts Festival and All Together Now.

Cork based singer-songwriter and performer Rita Lynn weaves a tapestry of folk, jazz, and soul, drawing inspiration from the raw beauty of the Irish landscape, her artistic upbringing, and the complexities of human experience. Recent highlights for Rita have featured live performances for the Cork Guinness Jazz Festival, Electric Picnic’s Croí stage and a successful headline show in Cork’s St Peter’s Church as part of River Runs Round festival. She has also just completed her debut independent tour; “Ostara” which premiered her full band concept show in four locations across the country, ahead of the release of her debut studio album this autumn. Rita also made her national television debut in 2024, performing an original composition for RTE One’s Ireland In Music & singing alongside David Kitt and the RTE concert orchestra for the RTE Celebrates Culture Night special. Throughout 2023/24 Rita performed in the David Kitt band, and has contributed vocals for his latest New Jackson record Oops!…Pop. Included in the Irish Examiners  “10 ones to watch for 2025” Rita is hopeful to add a unique voice to the contemporary music scene in Ireland