Dara Ó Briain per incontrare i suoi sei fratelli per la prima volta sulla cinquantina

Dara Ó Briain is at home in London on a brief stopover during his marathon stand-up tour, Re:Creation, which kicked off earlier this year with a series of sold-out shows at Vicar Street in Dublin. The comedian, who grew up in Bray, Co Wicklow, is currently traversing the theatres of the UK, which requires losing some Irish elements of his performance. “Vicar Street is so conversational, but when you go to the likes of Cheltenham or Northampton it’s a little less ‘hey, let’s have a chat’. People aren’t sitting forward on stools with a pint beside them. In the UK you have to trim away extraneous fat, Irish references and local colour.”

Fortunately he’s coming back to Ireland for a performance in Cork and another flurry of shows at Vicar Street. Ó Briain was adopted and his last tour, *So … Where Were We?*, told the story of his search for his birth mother. *Re:Creation* is a sequel: the hunt for his biological dad. “When the mother story worked so well, it was like breaking a seal because I’d not done a lot of very personal stuff on stage. The last one trained me to have patience with the audience. You’re telling them a story — let them take the information on board. Your instinct is to run to the gags. It turned out to be a really good twisty stage story.”

Ó Briain’s adoption quest was not something that woke him up at 3am. “Rain droplets falling down a window while I was there, backlit, saying, ‘Who am I really?’ No. And I’ve not thought, ‘How am I going to turn this into the movie? How am I going to make the sitcom or the book?’ Slowly telling it night by night seems to have been enough for me.”

I saw his set on this in Vicar Street, it’s a great story.

Did he meet them at one of his 500 hundred gigs in Vicar St, him and Christy Moore seem to play every second day