Stage Play
Written by Mahon McCann
Directed by Conan McIvor
Do you ever wonder why we do this to ourselves?”
It’s 7am Sunday morning, the party started 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 session heads 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. His best friend, Niall, a self-proclaimed session master, 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, psychedelics, 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. Supported by the Dublin Fringe Lab 50 in 2020, 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.
Supported by Fringe Lab 50, Dublin Fringe Festival
Presented by The New Theatre Dublin
Waiting For The Offo
The New Theatre, Temple Bar Dublin, 4-8 July 2023
Photography by Al Craig
Programme
Credits
Writer
Mahon McCann
Director/Designer
Conan McIvor
Cast
Cillian Lenaghan
Liam Bixby
Hazel Clifford
Terry O'Neill
Abigail McGibbon
Lighting Design
Jonathan Daley
Sound Design
Brian Lincoln
Set Builder
Matthew Mullan
Creative Consultant
Michael J. Daly
Artistic Director - The New Theatre
Anthony Fox
Special thanks to:
Anthony Hanley
Emma Cohen and Gavin Quinn at Pan Pan
John McIlduff at Dumbworld
Gina Moxley
Michael West
Dublin Fringe
The Brokentalkers
Michael and Sharon McIvor
Donal McNeela & Five Lamps Festival
Crowdfund supporters :
James Scanlon, Joshua Twining, Ellie Walsh, Justin Ng, Paddy Hanlon, Conor O’Reilly, Brooke Carson, Siofra McCann, Max Murphy, Philip Halton, Chris Bent, Brian Lincoln, Valerie Mulhall, Grace Murray, Triona McAleese, Jamie McKeown, Miyoko McCann, Mark Ellison, John O’Regan, Shane Murphy, Diarmuid O’Neill, Stephen Corcoran, Kevin Duffy, Michael Moylan, Mihaela Ursica, Gary Grant, Frances Howlin, Eamon Howlin, Sara Howlin, Marina IG, Ben Fallon, Ciara Margolis, Alix Bent, Jeremy Maurin, Ciara Kennedy, Callum McMahon, Mathew Mullen, Claire Magner, David Sheedy, Tommy & Claire Dunne, Andrew Chapman, Marnie Kennedy, Maire Callaghan, Randall Mounts, Comhghall McKeating, Sarah Fallon, Jimmy O’Neill, Dan Lambert, Fintan Smith, Anna Doherty, Luke Abraham, Vicky Gaskin, Niall O’Reilly, Elena Ohara, Ross Coleman, Stephen McCann, Peter McCann, Gavin Fitzgerald, Tom Flynn, Killian Walpole, Jonathan Coffey, Fred Daly, Ben Sherwood, Conor Doran, Neil Walsh, Max Rockliffe, Denis Casey, AJ Ferris, Jamie Duffin, Andreas Slattery, Donal Gaughran, Michael West, Peter Douglas, Kevin Caldwell, Brooke Carson, Roisin Cogley, Conan Mchugh, Sallie Shipsey, Gavin O’Rourke, Hannah Mcglynn, Timothy Nolan, Harry Flood, Elena Ohara, Sean Fahey, Caroline O Connor, Brendan Murray-byrne, Hannah Kelly, Darragh Fingleton, Andrew Mowatt, Jack O’Byrne, James Hatt, Lisa McMinn, Conor Beatty, Ben Mcauliffe, Maurice Moran, Jamie Connell, Tony Browne, Martin McCann, Ronan Byrne, Mark Casserly, Tara Byrnes, Jack Wilson, Dennis Casey, Stephen Campion, Aveen Murray, Ross Holohan, Ronan Kennedy, Brendan Flood, Jack Cahill, Will Furey, Matthew McHugh, Sionnán Ní Nualláin.