7pm

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Rogha Bhríde Multitoned with Special Guest Little John Nee

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Join Bríd from the Galway Community Radio show 'Rogha Bhríde' in a multilingual, multinational, multicoloured conversation with the multi Little John Nee, writer, performer, storyteller, musician.

“Little John Nee, as actor and writer, has become a representative Irish figure and commentator. [..] His command of gesture, voice, pace, pitch, accent and dramatic pause is second to none, his singing lusty and the idiom very much his own. [...] His [performances hinge] on his unrivalled comic ability and his chameleon-like capacity to transmogrify from hapless hero to a range of other characters with minimal props and utter conviction. [...] Nee is a genius…mesmeric and hilarious” - Irish Times
                                                                                                  

“Yeah. But don’t believe everything you read. Come and see for yourself”   –  Bríd “Rogha Bhríde”
 

In November 2016 Little John Nee packed a few suitcases and left to bring his magic to sitting rooms and small halls in Vienna and neighbouring foreign cities including Zagreb, Budapest and Maribor, not far from the city of Graz, Austria, where Bríd of Flirt FM Radio Show “Rogha Bhríde” (Bríd’s choice) spent 10 years.

Bríd wants to know more. And more to the point, she wants to share the magic of Little John with you.
 

Warming up the stage for Little John on the night will be:

Bríd “Rogha Bhríde” Ní Mhaoileoin (vocals, bodhrán, bouzouki) 
                                                “A singer with an unquenchable fire in her belly” The Irish Times

and Leipzig fiddler player Anna Falkenau
                            “Imagine Denis Murphy meets Martin Hayes and both win!” fRoots Magazine


Little John Nee is a writer/performer based in Co. Galway in the west of Ireland. A prolific creator of work for theatre, he was recently elected to Aosdána (established by the Irish Arts Council in 1981 to honour artists whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the creative arts in Ireland).
 

His style of storytelling theatre with music has won him international recognition, and he has been commissioned to write plays for Barabbas Theatre Company, Axis Ballymun, Scottish Touring Theatre Consortium, An Grianán Theatre,  Earagail Arts Festival, Donegal Co. Council, Leitrim Co. Council, children’s plays for Galway Arts Festival and a radio play for RTÉ Radio Drama on One.

He has recently published a book of Haiku “The Apocalypse came on a Friday”, and previously his “A Donegal Trilogy” was published by An Grianán Theatre. He has released an album of songs from his theatre shows, recorded with The Caledonia Highly Strung Orchestra: “Songs from the Lough Swilly Delta”  

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Little John Nee - Sparkplug

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Wednesday, March 8, 7pm, Bank of Ireland Theatre