WHILE this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe had Olwen Fouere's riverrun playing to acclaim following its 2013 run in Dublin, the artistic traffic goes both ways, with this year's Dublin Theatre Festival showcasing several works from Scotland.
l If These Spasms Could Speak - Robert Softley's solo co-production with the Arches at the Project Arts Centre is a funny and touching study of disabled people and their bodies.
Softley's show mixes autobiographical monologue with filmed interviews in a challenge to society's perceptions of disabled people.
l Ganesh Versus the Third Reich - Part of a mini Australian season, Back To Back Theatre's award-winning show follows a theatre company's attempts to stage a play about the elephant-headed god Ganesh's attempts to reclaim the Swastika, and formed part of this year's Edinburgh International Festival's theatre programme.
l Paul Bright's Confessions of A Justified Sinner - Playing on the Peacock stage of the Abbey Theatre, Untitled Projects and the National Theatre of Scotland brought director Stewart Laing and writer Pamela Carter's look at radicalism, art and unreliable memoirs as performed by George Anton to Dublin following a run in Sweden.
l The Curious Scrapbook of Josephine Bean - Shona Reppe last appeared at DTF in 2012 with Potato Needs A Bath, and she returned to the festival's family programme with her award-winning look at a secret life for audiences aged seven and over.
Neil Cooper's visit to Dublin Theatre Festival was supported by Tourism Ireland.
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