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Queer Notions is at Project Arts Centre from 7 to 11 Dec 2010

THE YEAR OF MAGICAL WANKING

9.30PM
10 & 11 DEC 2010
Theatre
Space Upstairs

By Neil Watkins
Presented as part of Queer Notions 2010

Tickets €12/8
THE YEAR OF MAGICAL WANKING


Neil Watkins has wanked more than is healthy, allegedly.

In 2007, Neil woke in the night to be greeted by the vision of Amma, ‘the Hugging Saint’.  She'd hugged him in Dublin the night before.  Standing at the foot of his bed, her face changed into that of Jesus and back again. "Do you still want to kill yourself?” said the vision, “because you can come with us now."  "No," said Neil, shitting it that his number was up, "I want to stay”. "Well then...tell your story." 

On orders from heaven, this is Neil's story through the wilderness of queerness: from Catholic Ireland to the cruising bars of the world; from Finglas head shops to Native American ceremonies.

Bitterly funny, devastatingly tragic but always entertaining, Watkins explores what it is to remove the resistance in his life and reach his highest potential. 

"A pyrotechnical performer.... a writer to be taken seriously".  The Irish Times

Neil Watkins is an playwright and performer, MC of WERK at the Abbey Theatre, co-star of RTE's The Savage EYE, and Alternative Miss Ireland Winner Heidi Konnt. 

Commissioned by THISISPOPBABY with the support of Cork Midsummer Festival. THISISPOPBABY are part of Project Catalyst, an initiative of Project Arts Centre.