NEWS

The Year of Magical Wanking  ABsolUT Fringe 2011

Project Arts Centre Space Upstairs
9-17 September 2011
Tickets on sale now!

Written and performed by Neil Watkins
Directed by Phillip McMahon
Designed by Ciarán O'Melia
Produced by Lara Hickey
A THISISPOPBABY production

You've heard the rumours on the street, you've seen the tweets flying thick and fast, you may even have pledged on fundit to make this magic happen... Now, Dubliners, the show that blew the city grid last December and was a Cork Midsummer highlight in June is back for full production as part of Absolut Dublin Fringe 2011.

What the flyer says...

Neil Watkins has wanked more than is healthy, allegedly. One of Ireland’s most exciting artists and incendiary performers, Neil is a force of nature, a maverick, a 33-year old homosexual with a Jesus complex. On orders from heaven, this is Neil’s journey through the wilderness of queerness; from Catholic Ireland to the cruising bars of the world, from suburban ‘head Shops’ to native American ceremonies.

Named as Queer Notions 2010 Festival Highlight by The Irish Times, this is a brave and heartbreaking exploration of porn addiction, destructive sexual behaviour, Catholic guilt and family heartbreak. Written in hypnotic verse, it is both a profound personal journey and a furious state of the nation address.

A THISISPOPABY Commission, supported by Cork Midsummer Festival. Originally created for Queer Notions 2010, a THISISPOPBABY and Project Arts Centre co-production.

This outing is made possible with the support of 175 individual funders via www.fundit.ie.

What the papers say...

“Truthful, heartfelt and immediately identifiable… astonishingly brave.” The Irish Times

"Both caustic and considered, a seething personal autobiography which, under Phillip McMahon’s bracingly unsentimental direction, is transformed into a more capacious metaphor for disaffection and regeneration.

A brave and piercing display...one that exhibits the dexterity of (Watkin's) nimble mind, his cynical but somehow refreshing optic on the country, and, above all, his drive to create and relate."
Irish Theatre Magazine