Old Dunnes Stores Car Park, Castlebar Road // 25-30 Oct // 19:00 & 21:00 Daily
Play located through the main gate of the Old Dunnes Building, opposite the Castlecourt - Map Here
Following a sold out run at this year's Dublin Fringe Festival, we are delighted to present this immersive theatre piece from Westport's own Padraic Walsh, as part of the Blue Thunder national tour.
It’s 3am in small-town Ireland. The nightclub is closed. The chipper is chaotic. And down a dark, quiet side-street, exhausted taxi-driver Brian is sitting in his minibus, finished work for the night.
But then his two drunk sons call, demanding a lift home. They arrive at Brian’s taxi full of booze, songs and stories. It soon becomes clear, though, that one of the lads has a plan to do something horrendous, something unforgivable, tonight. Can his father and his brother stop him or is he about to destroy his life?
Written by Westport Native Padraic Walsh and directed by Cathal Cleary (Druid’s Furniture), Blue Thunder is an immersive, site-specific show, staged entirely within an actual minibus for just 12 audience members per performance.
This is the Irish Premiere of Blue Thunder, the winner of the Vault Festival London Innovation Award 2019. Funny, frightening and deeply moving, Padraic Walsh’s award-winning play examines what happens when the people who should be there for you have nothing left to give.
“Padraic Walsh’s engrossing play…the audience is eyeball to eyeball with the actors” Lyn Gardner, Stagedoor
The company have created a familiarisation pack for anyone who would like to have more specific information on the show, it can be found here
Blue Thunder by Padraic Walsh
A Cathal Cleary Theatre and Kelly Phelan co-production
“Rare, true, profound. Full of pathos, amazement and excitement” Framed Magazine