A sober look at the madness: Cork comedian Tadhg Hickey brings his new show to the Dublin Fringe

BORED by the usual alcohol stories in theatre and film which are “universally gritty and depressing”, Cork comedian Tadhg Hickey was inspired to write a surreal show about an alcoholic called Feargal using the Catholic calendar as a roadmap.

Hickey will premiere his new one-man show, In One Eye, Out the Other, at the Dublin Fringe Festival, and he expects to tour it to Cork and other centres. Hickey, best known as a member of the comedy troupe, CCCahoots, says he wanted to explore alcoholism in a way that acknowledges the inherent madness that goes with heavy drinking.