tour

the year of magical wanking
Cork Midsummer Festival

WHERE? HALF MOON THEATRE, CORK
WHEN?   23-25 JUNE @ 10PM
BOOK HERE

We're only thrilled to be heading to Cork for the first time with a show, and to top things off we're playing as part of the fabulous Cork Midsummer Festival with our friends at the Opera House. It's gonna be quite the party, so start planning your weekend in the People's Republic!

What the flyer says:

Neil Watkins has wanked more than is healthy, allegedly. As 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 story 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, The Year of Magical Wanking is a brave and heartbreaking exploration of porn addiction, destructive sexual behaviour, Catholic guilt and family heartbreak. Written in hypnoticverse, it is both a profound personal journey and a furious state of the nation address.

A THISISPOPBABY commission supported by Cork Midsummer Festival.

"A brave and piercing display...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...heartbreaking"
Irish Theatre Magazine