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The Little John Nee Residency

The Derry Boat Tour Dates 2010/2011

DRAMA

Thurs 14 to Sat 16 Oct 2010 at 8pm

The Derry Boat

Little John Nee

Tickets: €10/€8

Book online: Thurs | Fri | Sat

Schools Matinee: Thurs 14 Oct 2010 at 1pm

Little John Nee is an unlikely gangster as he makes his entrance in The Derry Boat. Cued by a dissonant crunchy electric guitar chord, Nee, as Shugie O'Donnell, crashes through the door of a corrugated metal shack in a rumpled black suit and tiny sunglasses, waving a gun and toting a large suitcase. This sets the stage for an unlikely roller-coaster ride that tells the funny but poignant story of the four generations of migration between Ireland and Scotland.

The Derry Boat celebrates the strong and vibrant links which have existed between Donegal and Scotland through the years. The play's title is taken from the Derry/Glasgow ferry on which emigrants and travellers sailed back and forth from Donegal and Glasgow up until the 1960s.

"full of pleasant surprises, the chief one being Nee himself" Washington Post

"highlight of the Dublin Festival...I don't think I've seen something this funny in years." Sunday Independent

Little John Nee

Written and performed by Little John Nee, directed by Padraig Breathnach, Music by Fergal Gallagher. Originally commissioned in 1998 by the Earagail Arts Festival as part of Arts Council Scriptwriters Award.