WAITING FOR THE OFFO BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT!!
Waiting For The Offo (the book) coming 01/12/25
Howiye!!
Very excited to announce that my stageplay Waiting For The Offo, preformed in 2023 for a sold-out run in the New Theatre Templebar, will be available on Amazon in Print and Digital on the 1/12/25!!!!
Book Summary
“Do you ever wonder why we do this to ourselves?”
It’s 7 am 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. Awarded the Dublin Fringe Festival Fringe Lab Fifty in 2020 and debuting to a sold out audience in Templebar’s The New Theatre 2023, this dynamic new production will take you on a euphoric free-fall into the Dionysian world of the Dublin party scene; the good times we love, and the bad habits we don’t.
Reviews of the Play:
“This play has it all, except booze. There’s friendship, attempts at romance, crazed drug dealers. Not to mention deep existential conversations about life, direction etc...Inspired by Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot, Mahon McCann gives the idea a fun modern twist while retaining the existential philosophical nature of the idea.” @Dramatic Dublin
“It’s like watching your own life up there on the stage” @WildState
“We need rebels like McCann and McIvor. New voices making unconventional theatre in unconventional ways. Waiting for the Offo shows talent, passion and promise.” @The Arts Reviewer
“Big shout out to everyone involved with the play Waiting for The Offo, which I absolutely loved . I really appreciated that so much of the art I encountered from current Irish artists is grappling with the country’s intense alcohol intake. This play grappled hilariously and brilliantly.” @Abdi Nazemian, Stone wall and Lambda literary award-winning author.
Coming soon!