A Very Odd Birthday Party ONLINE

You can now watch A Very Odd Birthday Party Online! When you book your ticket, you will receive an email with a passcode to watch A Very Odd Birthday Party Online. You can watch at any time that suits you between 17th Nov and 16th Dec 2022! When you book a ticket, you will receive an email with details on how to watch the video online!

Filmed by Aaron Howell (Howl Creative) on 26th October 2022 at the Met, Bury.

Can you ever really know someone? Can you know too much? Are there parts of ourselves we must simply reconcile with in silence?

This is your invitation to Michael Moriarty’s birthday party.

Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting, A Very Odd Birthday Party is a new play by Hannah Donelon with live, traditional music. Join mother-to-be Eveline and her Dad Michael Moriarty on a journey that penetrates the psyche, humour, and trauma of being a first and second-generation immigrant in the UK. A Very Odd Birthday Party revels in the complexities of family, working-class identity, and memory.

Directed by Anna Berentzen (Headlong Origins 2022; Royal Exchange; North Wall Theatre), this is a story filled with humour, suffering, loss, music, and hope for the future. Creative audio description will be embedded into the script with expertise from Chloë Clarke.

The play is being delivered in partnership with The Met and Liverpool Irish Festival, and is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and by funding from the Consulate General of Ireland, Manchester. A Very Odd Birthday Party was initially developed thanks to funding and support from The Production Exchange.

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