Thursday 30th January @1pm
Friday 31st January @ 1pm and 8pm
Saturday 1st February @ 8pm

Pakie O’Callaghan celebrates the Storytelling of Eamon Kelly

Eamon Kelly has been one of Pakie O’Callaghan’s theatrical heroes since his teenage years and he fondly remembers listening with his father to Kelly on Dinjo’s “Take the floor” which went out for many years on Sunday nights on Radio Eireann and later on to Kelly’s own programme “The Rambling House”. O’Callaghan remembers being transfixed by Kellys performances in his one man shows “In my Fathers Time”, “Bless me Father” and “Stonemad” which were performed to packed houses at The Everyman Theatre and which won widespread acclaim both in Ireland and internationally. This show will be a trip down memory lane for many but O’Callaghan is hoping to also develop a new audience for these stories which he describes as universal and timeless and always very, very funny. O’Callaghan does not seek to mimic Eamon Kelly, and while staying true to the wonderful writing “Pakie O’Callaghan celebrates the storytelling of Eamonn Kelly” is his own interpretation of the work of Ireland’s greatest storyteller .

Written and performed by Pakie O’Callaghan
Directed by Marion Wyatt (Sunbeam Girls, Dockers, Katty Barry, Queen of the Coal Quay, and recent hit The Echo Boys)

Duration- 75mins approx

In a long career Pakie O’Callaghan has worked on stage, TV and radio.

In the mid-nineties Pakie featured in the RTE radio sketch series Shortt Circuit and subsequently played a lead role in the TV series Bull Island playing, among other characters, the then minister for Finance Charlie McCreevey.  In 2004 Pakie joined Joe Duffy’s Funny Friday Show as a writer/performer and has been there ever since. With the late and much lamented Frank Twomey, Pakie co-wrote and starred in the hit stage show Santa Ponsa or Bust which spawned two follow up shows, Surviving Santa Ponsa and Life after Santa Ponsa.  Following sell out shows at the Everyman, Frank and Pakie toured the Santa Ponsa Trilogy to every corner of Ireland.

Pakie has written and performed three one man shows, In the National Interest, The Last Brown Envelope and No more Brown Envelopes, all of which toured nationally.

Tickets: €18
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