Most Peculiar Dreams

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The Helix, Friday 2nd June

Set in 1950’s New York, Stage Musical ‘Most Peculiar Dreams’ centres around Irish American Family the Donnelly’s. Their son Shawn Donnelly Junior decides to miss his high school graduation ceremony in favour of leaving home to seek his fame and fortune. The show examines how chance encounters and small interventions, can influence a person’s fate and how utterly strange and unlikely our existence is. Book, songs and lyrics by Fergus Foran, the show tells a heart-warming story reflecting on love, family, friendships and how we triumph over loss.

Most Peculiar Dreams is an original Irish Musical by Fergus Foran. Set in 1950’s New York, the show examines how chance encounters and small interventions, can influence a person’s fate. It tells a heart-warming story reflecting on love, family, friendships and how we triumph over loss. The show is centred around Irish American high school graduate Shawn Donnelly Junior as he pursues a career in the New York club scene. Will he find fame and fortune or maybe even true love? Or will he find all that glitters is not gold?


Date:
Friday 2nd June
Time:
7.30pm
Price:
€12.50 - €25
Address:
The Helix, DCU, Collins Avenue, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland

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