Lisdoon Nirvana

written and performed by Frankie McCafferty
directed by Charlie Bonner

It’s 1983, Macker’s 17 and is heading off on the biggest adventure of his young life – a trip to the Irish Glastonbury, Lisdoonvarna. There’s Smithwick’s in the rucksack. And rumour has it that the girls from the North are bringing hash and condoms. So that’s alright Mama…

Based on the last music festival at Lisdoonvarna in July 1983, this entertaining monologue with live music follows one young guy, Macker, and his friends making the Odyssean trip from Donegal to Clare.

Travelling on the pillion of his friend’s two-stroke motorbike, they encounter 80s Ireland and young people from all over making the same pilgrimage. Laden with camping gear and cheap alcohol smuggled across the border, wearing a converted Garda riot control helmet stuffed with bin bags, and a pair of swimming goggles, our hero undergoes a rite of passage as he ventures out into the big bad beautiful world.

For anyone who’s ever been young and dreamed of going to a festival and finding Nirvana. Age recommendation: 14+, some strong language

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• Next month, 11th July, 08:00 pm, Session Americana feat. Eleanor Buckland in Letterkenny

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