Waiting For The Offo

Waiting For The Offo

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The New Theatre, Tuesday 4th July - Saturday 8th July

“Do you ever wonder why we do this to ourselves?”

It’s 7 am Sunday morning, the party was two nights ago but Terry and Niall are still awake and trying to keep the sesh alive…

In this coming-of-age-late comedy-drama, Terry Joyce and Niall Freeman are two loveable Millennials who can’t grow up. After a year abroad, Terry has returned home from exile on the continent to the familiar dull round of Irish parties and living in his mother’s spare bedroom. A self-proclaimed session master, his best friend, Niall, never left and supplements his Monday-Friday insurance sales job with an alter-ego as a weekend warrior.

Inspired by Samuel Beckett’s seminal piece Waiting For Godot (but set in Dublin), Waiting For The Offo follows these two estranged best friends as they face off against having no drink, old love interests, the local nut-case drug dealer, purposelessness, nihilism, psycedelics, and finally, each other.

This play deals with the perennial themes of hopelessness, friendship, mental health and coming of age in the confusion of the modern world. Awarded the Dublin Fringe Festival Fringe Lab Fifty in 2020, Written by Mahon McCann and Directed by Conan McIvor, this dynamic new production will take you on a euphoric free-fall into the dionysian world of the Dublin session scene; the good times we love, and the bad habits we don’t.

Date:
Tuesday 4th July - Saturday 8th July
Time:
7.30pm (matinee Sat 8th July 2.30pm)
Price:
€10 - €20
Address:
The New Theatre, Essex Street East, Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland
Google Map of The New Theatre, Essex Street East, Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland

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