The Dublin Fringe Festival kicked off at the weekend with 81 productions playing across 34 venues over the next two weeks. The Women's Podcast invited two young performers, Eva O’Connor and Sahar Ali, into studio to speak to us about the shows they are involved in.

Eva's play The Friday Night Effect deals with issues of bipolar disorder and sex work, the play puts the fate of three young women on a wild night out in Dublin in the audience’s hands in this interactive production.

Sahar Ali brings her one-woman show to the Smock Alley Theatre Boys School, exploring the Irishism, Arabism and racism. Through poetry, music and comedy, Sahar Ali introduces us to a variety of caricatures which examine the multicultural world we live in. Sussing out the differences and similarities between here and “out foreign”.