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• JOYCED!

  

  Joyced!

  One night only.

  Sunday May 20th  (8pm)

  Written by Donal O Kelly. Performed by Katie O Kelly

  Tickets €20

  Joyced! Returns to The Viking and Edinburgh bekons

   ‘[Joyce’s Dublin] comes alive under Donal O’Kelly’s tumbling prose and Katie O’Kelly’s fervent performance’ – Emer O’Kelly, Sunday Independent 

  As a special fundraising event to help raise the necessary funds to stage the show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival the Viking Theatre is hosting a one-off performance of this special show on Sunday 20^th May @8pm. Tickets for the event are limited and will cost €20. Thank you in advance for your on-going support. We are delighted to present this work again particularly as it was our inaugural show. To book call 087 1129970

  
  

   

   

UPCOMING PRODUCTIONS

• Viking Comedy Club

  

   

   

   Fri 25th May (Doors open 9.45pm)

  Tickets: €12.50
  The Viking’s COMEDY CLUB

  MONTH STAND UP COMEDY AT   THE VIKING.

  Special Guest Foil, Arms & Hog. With Danny O Brien, Aidan Killian & Niamh Marron .Click to view

  Foil,Arms & Hog

• The Parting Glass

   

  The Parting Glass

  Written by Dermot Bolger

  Performed by Ray Yeates

  21 – 26 May 2012

  Nightly 8 pm. €10. Call  0871129970

   A story of love, family, friendship, turbulent economic times… and Thierry Henry’s left hand!

  Where were you when our World Cup dreams were dashed? Eoin was at the heart of the drama in Stade de France, Nov 18th 2009. Reunited with Mick and Shane, the three amigos on that fateful night…  After emigrating to Germany to find work during the 80’s, Eoin made a new life for himself with the help of his wife Frieda and son Dieter. Now he returns to an Ireland that has boomed and bust.

  “Where Dorset Street has become so posh that all the women have turned blonde …… and the girls buying John Player Blue at Hardwick Street flats have a different pair of pyjamas to wear to the shops every day”.

  “The Parting Glass’ is a one-man show, charting Eoin’s journey through love, friendship, family and Ireland’s turbulent economic climate. * * * * The Irish Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Business Post, The Examiner

  “Yeates’s histrionic cheerleading is inspired. The play’s rousing climax will make even the most devoted theater lover wish that she followed sports“. – The New York Times
  

   

• Macklin: Method and Madness

   

  Macklin: Method and Madness

  Written and performed by Gary Jermyn & Michael James Ford

  Mon May 28th – Sat 2nd June (8pm)

  Tickets €10  Call 087 1129970

  A comedy about the strolling player from Donegal who survived a murder charge to become a giant of the London stage

  It is February 1941. London is being ravaged by the Blitz……At the BBC, a radio play for two voices has been commissioned to celebrate the bicentenary of a famous event – on Valentine’s Day  1741, Culdaff-born Charles Macklin first appeared on the London stage as Shylock in Shakepeare’s  “Merchant of Venice” – a role which he was to make his own for the next 50 years….Despite the air raid warnings, the show must go on.

  A new play about the legendary 18th century actor, who rose from humble origins in Donegal to a triumphant career on the London stage where his realistic style of playing redefined the actor’s craft. His terrifying portrayal of Shylock was the sensation of the age and allegedly gave the King nightmares. Macklin himself was a pugnacious and quarrelsome individual, whose fiery temper led to an infamous backstage killing and subsequent murder charge.

  This highly original and extremely funny show was the hit of the Macklin Festival in Culdaff, Co Donegal last October.

  “Thoroughly entertaining…the actors were amazing”. Margaret Murphy Lynch

   

   

   

   

   

• Nuts and Bolts

  Nuts and Bolts

  Written by Fiona Looney

  Performed by Deirdre Donnelly

  4th – 9th June Tickets €10

  087 1129970

  Marie used to be the mother of Linda, Carol and Brian and the wife of Dermot and the woman who cleaned the church.  One day twenty years ago, her 14-year-old son, Brian, disappeared without trace…Now, her every memory is tainted by that tragedy, and her only hope is that one day, her phone will ring.Nuts and Bolts tells of an ordinary woman struggling with an unimaginable loss. As Marie reflects on two decades of waiting and hoping, a powerful story emerges of faith, courage,  and indomitable humour.

  “…an enthralling performance…”Sunday Times

   “Looney has written from the heart and Marie’s Dublin character rings true.” Sunday Business Post