Award-winning queer cabaret weirdos Pea Dinneen & Paul Prior invite you to an intimate evening of song and story in a show that takes a long, hard gawk at the botched face of queer Dublin. Ireland’s favourite transgender chanteusse Pea Dinneen & the keeper of the music of the gays Mr Paul Prior are here to take you on a dazzling journey of (mostly) original songs about the Dublin they’ve known, loved and no longer seem to quite fit into.
This is a show about finding space in a crowded city. This is a show about being an other to the other. This is a show about figuring out where you belong when the places made for people like you don’t seem to want you anymore. There will be lyrically dense and melodically ambitious nostalgia. There will be an unearned sense of sentimentality in the face of oppression. There will be BIG, GAY BOPS.
Pea Dinneen Sings the Songs of Pea Dinneen & Paul Prior Accompanied by Paul Prior
Pea Dinneen is a theatre maker and cabaret artist from Dublin. In 2023, she was awarded the Next Generation Artist award from the Arts Council of Ireland and the Next Stage Wildcard Award at Dublin Fringe Festival. Pea’s work discusses transgender issues in a contemporary Irish context. Currently, she is developing her play Cool Suburban Mam with Rough Magic Theatre Company and her solo cabaret play Pea Dinneen: Raising Her Voice with support from The Arts Council of Ireland, The Abbey Theatre and Project Arts Centre. When she’s not writing plays, Pea is the co-founder and co-host of Dublin’s spiciest DIY queer cabaret night EGG.
Studying Music at Trinity College, Paul Prior began his music career as a classically-trained concert pianist. While winning national competitions and even competing internationally he dabbled in musical theatre, being the repetiteur for the college productions of A Chorus Line and Avenue Q and teaching piano at the prestigious Long Lake Camp For The Performing Arts in upstate New York. After graduating, Paul began working for various music groups in Dublin, arranging music for the RTE National Symphony Orchestra, composing commissions for choreographers across multiple instances of the Dancer from The Dance Festival, teaching workshops on electronic music with the collective Dublin Modular, and playing the house down as the house pianist for the award-winning Queer Cabaret EGG
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