Friday 15th August 2025
Location: Cleere’s Theatre
7 – 10 & 12 – 16 August
5:30pm & 6:30pm
Parade Tower, Medieval Room
€10 / €5
25 min approx.
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Wheelchair accessible
by Clare Monnelly
directed by Dónal Gallagher
Alice’s tormentor-in-chief, Bishop Richard DeLedrede, is suffering a little setback. Alice has friends in high places and the poor Pater in Cristo has suffered the indignity of imprisonment. But not for long. Things just got personal, and Bishop Dickie is on the war path…
The Alice Project
700 years ago, Dame Alice Kyteler was the first woman in Ireland to be tried for heresy. She fled Kilkenny, and her servant Petronella was tried and convicted in her stead, then publicly burned alive on the main street of Kilkenny.
Publicly. Burned. Alive.
This is not their story. But it might be.
In 2026 acclaimed theatre company Asylum Productions (Big Chapel X, The Local) will return to the Festival for an epic reimagining of the tale of the Kilkenny Witch Trials.
This year, audiences can enjoy a sneak preview of some of the chapters of The Alice Project, including a brief, intimate, one-to-one encounter with Alice in a secret city centre location, and an audience with her archnemesis: the dreaded DeLedrede.
This project is funded by Kilkenny County Council’s Public Art Programme 2024-2026. Funded by the Department of Housing Local Government and Heritage.
Book Tickets
Book Tickets
Thu 7 Aug, 5.30p.m. €10 / €5 BOOK NOW
Thu 7 Aug, 6.30p.m. €10 / €5 BOOK NOW
Fri 8 Aug, 5.30p.m. €10 / €5 BOOK NOW
Fri 8 Aug, 6.30p.m. €10 / €5 BOOK NOW
Sat 9 Aug, 5.30p.m. €10 / €5 BOOK NOW
Sat 9 Aug, 6.30p.m. €10 / €5 BOOK NOW
Sun 10 Aug, 5.30p.m. €10 / €5 BOOK NOW
Sun 10 Aug, 6.30p.m. €10 / €5 BOOK NOW
Tue 12 Aug, 5.30p.m. €10 / €5 BOOK NOW
Tue 12 Aug, 6.30p.m. €10 / €5 BOOK NOW
Wed 13 Aug, 5.30p.m. €10 / €5 BOOK NOW
Wed 13 Aug, 6.30p.m. €10 / €5 BOOK NOW
Thu 14 Aug, 5.30p.m. €10 / €5 BOOK NOW
Thu 14 Aug, 6.30p.m. €10 / €5 BOOK NOW
Fri 15 Aug, 5.30p.m. €10 / €5 BOOK NOW
Fri 15 Aug, 6.30p.m. €10 / €5 BOOK NOW
Sat 16 Aug, 5.30p.m. €10 / €5 BOOK NOW
Sat 16 Aug, 6.30p.m. €10 / €5 BOOK NOW
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