Goonish anarchy as Derry Playhouse to stage Spike Milligan’s ‘Puckoon’

Spike Milligan’s ‘Puckoon’ is to be staged at The Playhouse in Derry on the great comedian’s birthday. Big Telly’s smash hit stage production will come to the Artillery Street venue on Saturday week, 16 April, on what would have been the much loved writer and actor’s 98th birthday. Based on the book by Milligan, directed by Zoë Seaton, with music by Paul Boyd, the show boasts an all-star cast, including Paddy Jenkins (Game of Thrones, Dancing Shoes; the George Best Story), Patrick J O’ Reilly (Gulliver, Cabaret), Keith Singleton (Hatch, One Sandwich Short of a Genius), John O'Mahony (As you like it, Mrs Browns Boys, Fr.Ted), Giles Stoakley (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Tale of Two Cities) and Paul Alexander Boyd (multi award-nominated writer, composer and theatre director). Ireland 1922, and the Ulster Boundary Commission has drawn the new border straight through the small town of Puckoon.

With the church separated from its own graveyard and drink now thirty percent cheaper in one corner of the pub, life in the newly divided village will never be the same again.

Based on the book by Spike Milligan, this comic masterpiece is an irreverent and hilarious story which takes the mick, celebrates the absurd, and paints a picture of a simple life that borders on the ridiculous. Tickets are £11/£8 and are available from The Playhouse Box Office on (028)71268027 or online at www.derryplayhouse.co.uk.