EXTRA DATE ADDED DUE TO POULAR DEMAND!!…
Tickets are now available for Sunday 2nd February @ 3pm
NOTE: Friday 31st Jan and Saturday 1st February are sold out.
OMID DJALILI in
‘A STRANGE BIT OF HISTORY’
Comedian will revive one of his earliest stage creations for two performances at the Cork Arts Theatre after a sold out run in September at the British Library in London.
Actor and stand-up comedian Omid Djalili is to return to one of his earliest stage creations ‘A Strange Bit of History’ for two-performances of the one-man play at The Cork Arts Theatre.
The enthralling and hilarious storytelling piece of mystical experiences, astonishing claims, adventures and tragedies is set against the backdrop of tumultuous expectation for a Promised One in Persia 1844.
In this revival to mark the Bicentenary of the birth of the Prophet Founder of the Baha’i Faith, Omid portrays a rich diversity of characters, both tragic and comic. The yarn is spun by scholars and famous names of the day, alongside an Egyptian camel-driver, a chief executioner of Tehran, and a distressed modern-day poet, who rails against the ills of our current world, and grapples with questions about human existence.
A Strange Bit of History was first performed at the Edinburgh Festival, where it won the Spirit of the Fringe Award. Following the Fringe,it was performed 109 times in 10 different countries.
Omid’s theatre credits include Fiddler On The Roof (Chichester), The Shawshank Redemption (Edinburgh), What the Butler Saw (Vaudeville Theatre) and Fagin in Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane). Television includes Going Forward, Lucky Man, Dickensian, two seasons of The Omid Djalili Show and on US network television, Whoopi, The Paul Reiser Show and his own HBO stand-up Special. Films include the Oscar winning Gladiator, the Oscar nominated Shaun the Sheep Movie, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, The Mummy, Sex and the City 2, The Infidel, Mr Nice, Grow Your Own, Over the Hedge, Casanova, Modigliani, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, The Calcium Kid, Anita & Me, Mean Machine and Spygame.
Tickets: €15 Adults, €10 Students
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