Late Night/Drama

Chicken

BY EVA O’CONNOR & HILDEGARD RYAN.
A SUNDAY’S CHILD THEATRE PRODUCTION.

DIRECTED BY HILDEGARD RYAN.

1 May -
3 May 2025

Overview

Once a lowly bird from the Irish wilderness now the world’s most famous cock.

Don Murphy is one of his generation’s greatest actors, a proud Irish man, and a hopeless ketamine addict. He also happens to be a chicken. Across one fateful night, the feathered Oscar-winner shares his star-studded story – how he was plucked from obscurity to become king of the coop in Hollywood. But along the way Don is confronted with some harsh truths about his place in the pecking order and in a daring act of rebellion, he hatches a plan that could change the fate of all Chicken-kind forever.

From the Fringe First-winning Eva O’Connor and Hildegard Ryan comes a play “unlike anything you’ve ever seen” (Playbill). Fresh from sold-out, award-winning runs at the Edinburgh and Dublin Fringe Festivals this new Irish play by the critically acclaimed Sunday’s Child is an outrageously funny and heartfelt look at fame, fragility, and freedom.

 


People


Eva O’Connor and Hildegard Ryan
Writer
Hildegard Ryan
Director


Media

“A masterful look at oppressive power structures from media hegemony to the global meat industry”
The Skinny
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“If you need to restore your faith in what theatre has to offer, look no further than Eva O’Connor’s Chicken”
Broadway Baby
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“Clucking clever stuff”
The Stage
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Tickets

1 May -
3 May 2025

Thursday to Saturday
9.15pm

Saturday
1.00pm

Tickets £22 (£20 conc.)
Concessions available to over-65s, theatre unions, anyone with access needs, or in receipt of Universal Credit and students.

Please note that there will be seating available on stage for this production. To select this option, please click on the seat map shown as AA