Owen O'Neill

Chasing My Tale

During the past nine years, Owen O’Neill has written directed and performed seven one-man shows for the Edinburgh Festival. Winning several awards including two fringe firsts, the Edinburgh critics award for best comedy, the LWT writers award for best comedy and a Perrier nomination. In Chasing My Tale he will bring together and reinvent some of the best moments from all of these shows which are exaggerated, personal, heartfelt, hilarious accounts of a life still being lived and written about.

Topics include: Sixteen children no flush toilet, alcoholism, strangling sheep at Christmas. Fighting with Liam Neeson, Interrogation by an IRA man with a stammer and holding Mick Jagger hostage.

O’Neill is a fine artist. He combines a stand-up’s attack, a sketch comic’s talent for creating instant characters and an actors ability to give them heart and soul.                                Kate Copstick, The Scotsman

His writing is reminiscent of the plays of Sean O’Casey and the films of John Ford. Sheridan Morley, The Times

To describe what O’Neill does as Stand-up doesn’t do him justice. This is beyond Stand-up, this is an hilarious public washing of the emotional underwear. The New York Post