Top stand-up Neil Delamere announces Sligo tour date
TOP Irish stand-up Neil Delamere has announced details of his brand new tour, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Pensioner, which is coming to The Hawk’s Well Theatre on 23rd March.
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Pensioner kicks off on 25 th November and continues until the end of April, 2018.
The intriguingly-titled Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Pensioner represents a somewhat new approach by the Offaly funnyman. The show is framed around a single narrative – a day earlier this year when Delamere helped his 82-year-old father deliver the local mealson-wheels to the elderly, which they had to finish in time for a horse race.
While hilariously describing the experience, and the various characters they meet on their outing, Delamere deviates with some uproarious side-stories before bringing everything together in a rewarding finale.
While not an official tribune to his father, ‘Butch Cassidy’ is underpinned by the close father and son relationship. There’s even some recorded comments from Mr Delamere Senior who, interestingly, has yet to see the show. “He’ ll see it when I play Tullamore”, commented the Edenderry native.
A UK critic who saw De- lamere perform Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Pensioner at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe wrote afterwards, “It’s a great show because it doesn’t feel rigid at all. The guy is genuinely affable, but funny too – he’s not pandering to anyone; you can see that the act is what it is, a hysterical hour with a hilarious comedian.”