Music : Theatre & Performance 2011 : Who Needs Enemies?
Who Needs Enemies? by Conor Montague, was the success story of last year’s Bulmer’s Galway Comedy Festival. Having sold out a four-night run at the Town Hall Studio, the show returned to the Town Hall Theatre (main room) on Monday December 20 to sell out A Christmas Tale.
Who Needs Enemies? portrays the trials and tribulations of Eoin Hancock. Fresh from a Buddhist retreat in the Himalayan wilderness, Hancock has returned to Galway to draw a line in the sand. Determined to escape a destructive lifestyle, he knows that his friends must be the first casualties on his pathway to cleanliness.
Unfortunately, those closest to him won’t be discarded that easily. Eoin’s friends arrive unannounced and uninvited to gradually chip away at his resistance, harassing him incessantly in the sanctuary of his own home as he struggles to remain sober. His sitting room becomes increasingly chaotic as the action progresses, becoming a microcosm of the cocaine-fuelled, hedonistic Ireland that Eoin is attempting to leave behind.
The production features an all-Galway cast, which includes well-known comedian, John Donnellan, and actors, Ray Kelly, Mark Dooley, Ciara Brady, Roland Mupotsa, John Lally and Nick Dowling. Directorial duties will be covered by Dara O’Foglú. Audiences can look forward to fifty minutes of mayhem as tragic hero, Eoin Hancock, attempts to deal with the substance abuse, irrational violence and sexual deviance his good friends bring to any occasion.
Who Needs Enemies? portrays the trials and tribulations of Eoin Hancock. Fresh from a Buddhist retreat in the Himalayan wilderness, Hancock has returned to Galway to draw a line in the sand. Determined to escape a destructive lifestyle, he knows that his friends must be the first casualties on his pathway to cleanliness.
Unfortunately, those closest to him won’t be discarded that easily. Eoin’s friends arrive unannounced and uninvited to gradually chip away at his resistance, harassing him incessantly in the sanctuary of his own home as he struggles to remain sober. His sitting room becomes increasingly chaotic as the action progresses, becoming a microcosm of the cocaine-fuelled, hedonistic Ireland that Eoin is attempting to leave behind.
The production features an all-Galway cast, which includes well-known comedian, John Donnellan, and actors, Ray Kelly, Mark Dooley, Ciara Brady, Roland Mupotsa, John Lally and Nick Dowling. Directorial duties will be covered by Dara O’Foglú. Audiences can look forward to fifty minutes of mayhem as tragic hero, Eoin Hancock, attempts to deal with the substance abuse, irrational violence and sexual deviance his good friends bring to any occasion.
