Irish pop sensation ÓDÚ brings her ever one-woman musical to Dublin Fringe Festival, this September. In her new show, Life, Itself, she adapts this musical journey to a theatre context while previewing her new music onto a stage setting – for the first time. Brimming with anthemic pop songs, Life, Itself is a concept album with a twist: a semi-autobiographical piece of gig theatre that will bring audiences on a special night out filled with the best home-grown pop bangers around.

Seen as one of Ireland’s brightest new songwriting talents, ÓDÚ explores the highs and lows of living life outside the norm, the tyranny of individual ambition, and the struggle to maintain platonic love in a world obsessed with romance. From the musical mind behind Xnthony’s 2022 hit musical show Oliver Cromwell is Really Very Sorry, comes an honest, witty, feminist musical journey to reconcile present contentment with mourning for choices of the past. As life in the city contracts and friends and community drift further and further apart, Life, Itself asks young and not-so-young-anymore people, how do we celebrate a life we never could have predicted?