Playing Field: Jade O'Connor Presents Malibu Disco

Malibu Disco is about synthesising the dreams of my parents, turning them into my own by putting on my neighbour's Irish Dancing dress, dancing for American tourists and being all the things they weren’t allowed to be by becoming more Irish than the Irish themselves. They were people who became dancers (or at least tried their darndest) in a world without dance, they were queer in a world without queers, women with hope from a land without hope for women. It hasn’t been easy but it has been brilliant, brutal and colourful as all hell!

It’s an ode to the Irish diaspora in London, to queerness, to the Irish working classes, to the single mothers who fell pregnant and fled, the gay father’s who tried to fit in, out of wedlock and out of favour. Getting out of dodge before the neighbours had a chance to ruffle the curtains.

This one woman show deals with daunting topics with humour and truth!