It's The Real McCoy

The Crokey Hill Club presents
It’s the Real McCoy,
The Olympia Theatre,
Thursday 27th, Friday 28th & Saturday 29th June 2013

Written and Directed by Tommy Marren. Tickets €22.50 including booking fee, on sale now via Ticketmaster.

For the past year a new Irish play – set in rural Ireland in 1964 – has been the success story of Irish theatre with packed houses across the country enjoying a truly hilarious production of a play that is full of with humour, intrigue and suspense!

With over 80 sold-out shows in Galway, Letterkenny, Cavan, Mullingar, Sligo, Chicago, Birmingham and London it’s time for Ireland’s capital city to get its first viewing of this exciting and truly original comedy production.

‘It’s the Real McCoy’ is the brainchild of radio broadcaster Tommy Marren and the show rolls into The Olympia Theatre for three-nights of theatre that will have you in tears of laughter all night long.

The play is set over two days in the spring of 1964 in the humble abode of Madge Molloy – a woman in her mid-60’s – who has lived over 40 years of her life wondering why her husband Tom, whom she was only married to for just four months, disappeared without trace or reason. At the time of Tom’s disappearance Madge was expecting her only child and reared her daughter Maura on her own on a meagre farm with little or no income.

Needless to say Madge has become bitter and cold about men in general and makes no secret of the fact that love is a temporary insanity of the mind! She believes that she was better off without him and that in the case of Tom Molloy “if there was work to be done in the bed he’d sleep in the wardrobe”!

To remind herself of how much she despises her wayward husband she keeps their wedding photograph turned back to front on the wall to remind herself of how lucky she was to see the back of him!

The fact that Maura has fallen in love with local postman Martin Daly concerns Madge greatly and she does all in her power to convince Maura that the love of her life “isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer”!

However, Madge’s concerns about her daughters future become the least of her worries as the arrival of a new curate to the parish – namely Father Michael McCoy - is about to shed some light on the reasons why Tom disappeared all those years ago and more importantly his wishes to return and face Madge to tell her the circumstances around his hasty exit.

Realising that Tom has agreed to sign over the house and land to Madge she reluctantly agrees to meet with him and all hell is about to break loose when Tom arrives for a showdown with Madge.

To add to the confusion Madge has to contend with Ireland’s two nosiest neighbours as Nora and Cora O’Hora always arrive unannounced at the most inopportune moments and usually in the middle of the mayhem that is unfolding on stage!

With two love stories, a dominant wife, a frightened husband, a confused curate, a gormless postman and two pedigree gossips this production has all the ingredients for an unforgettable night’s theatre. Renowned actor Tom Hickey has described the play as
the funniest he’s seen in many years.

It’s the Real McCoy is packed with witty one-liners, a fascinating storyline and a nostalgic trip back in time that depicts the amazing wit of the Irish. This really is a must-see show with only one stipulation for audiences – bring a hanky!