Productions
Bondi Beach Boy Blue
Dates: Tuesday 16th Wednesday & 17th February
Prices: €15 / €12 Concession
Australia- the great southern land. A land girt by sea and pissed by lunchtime. Home to nine of the ten most poisonous creatures on earth. To Crocodile Dundee. To Skippy. To sixty million sheep. Home also, albeit briefly, to tens of thousands of young people from Ireland and the UK, who each year forsake lukewarm summers and so-so winters to fly south in search of adventure, warm sun and cold beer. Sooner or later they all end up in Sydney. Lured by the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge, golden beaches and soaps, many are snared by the bright lights of eastern Sydney and the myriad of watering holes jam-packed with fellow travellers. In the midst of this superhighway of youth and excitement, it's easy to escape ...
Armed with passport and not much else, Declan- accompanied by his best friend Gary, gravitates toward Ireland's 35th county, Bondi. Disillusioned with life at home, he is seeking pastures new. In a land of sun, fun and a thousand friendly faces, ten thousand miles from home, with the Olympics coming, it's an exciting time. It's a chance to start again. Can Declan take it? Or is any attempt at escape doomed to failure?
Bondi Beach Boy Blue is Declan's story. The story of his relationship with his father, Gary- his best mate, his uncle Donie and the women in his life- Lisa and Emma. The story of the set of problems he ran away from in Ireland and what he ran into in Australia.
"New and innovative" - Dermot Bolger, The Irish Times
"By turns comic and deeply affecting" - The Kerryman
"One hurl of a play" - The Irish Sun
"A must- see" - Kilkenny Advertiser