In HA HA YUM, Maeve tells the jokes while her sister Lilly makes cakes. Maeve Higgins has six sisters, one of whom has a heart murmur and is called Lilly. Both girls long for the simple pleasures of the 1950’s, like baking and pretending to be happy. In HA HA YUM, they tell jokes as…
Catalpa is a story in the great epic tradition of Moby Dick and Gone With The Wind with a passing glance at the Great Escape. From New Bedford, USA to Freemantle, Australia, across the high seas on the whaling ship Catalpa. Based on the true story of the daring rescue of six Irish prisoners in…
An Evening with Ronnie Drew, Theatre Cité Bleue, Geneva – April 16, 2005 No historian could ever summon up the feel and texture of the nation the way Ronnie Drew does through the course of a ghost-filled evening. In Geneva last Saturday night, he took us on an unsentimental journey down the last 150-odd years,…
In his incomparable one-man show, Do You Hear What I’m Seeing, David Norris evokes Joyce’s humour and humanity from the early short stories to the linguistic mosaic of Finnegan’s Wake.
