Once Before I Go

Told against the backdrop of Dublin's burgeoning gay rights movement of the 1980s and 1990s and the contemporary LGBTQ+ community of today the play charts the close friendship of Lynn Daithí and the luminous Bernard and sits on the exhilarating edge between comedy tragedy and melodrama.<br/><br/>Exploring the fragile yet resilient bonds of Irish queer lives across four decades in Dublin London and Paris <i>Once Before I Go</i> steps between the early days of the AIDS crisis and today's LGBTQ+ community living in an era of marriage equality gender self-determination and untransmittable HIV.<br/><br/>At once political joyous and heartbreaking <i>Once Before I Go</i> honours the fabulous people we lost along the way and celebrates those who fight on.<br/><br/><i>Once Before I Go</i>is an intensely moving world premiere from Phillip McMahon co-creator of the iconic sensation <i>RIOT!</i> This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at Dublin's Gate Theatre in September 2021.