Arts Festival to premiere musical version of Breakfast on Pluto

The world premiere of a new Irish musical, Breakfast on Pluto, based on the novel by Patrick McCabe will premiere at this year’s Galway International Arts Festival. That follows a successful staging of the show as a work-in-progress during last year’s Festival.

Breakfast on Pluto, which has been three years on the making will return to the Black Box from July 9-26, premiering on July 13, and tickets go on sale this Friday at 10am.

It’s written by Bob Kelly (of the hit one-man show Tintown) with music by renowned songwriter and performer Duke Special. Des Kennedy who co-created the piece, directs. His credits include Good Vibrations at The Lyric, Belfast and he was International Associate Director for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

The rural Irish border town of Tyreelin at the height of the Troubles is no place for the wonderfully unpredictable child that is Patrick/Pussy Braden, the illegitimate offspring of an errant priest and a long-gone local girl.

Dismayed by small-town bigotry, religious repression and the IRA’s lack of fashion sense, Pussy ditches watchtowers and checkpoints for the faraway galaxy of 1970s London in search of a long-lost mother and a new, Technicolour life.

Director and Co-Creator Des Kennedy explains that he first encountered Breakfast on Pluto as a teenager in Belfast where he grew up.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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