Joanne McNally: ‘Cork women get me. I feel seen there’
Joanne McNally in the Everyman Theatre, Cork. Pictures: Miki Barlok
I feel like Joanne McNally is my best friend. I’m not the only one. Women have taken to the comedic star in their droves. She’s the hilarious, slightly chaotic, always honest woman that we all needed over the last two years. She started her tour The Prosecco Express last month and still has 100 dates left to do, most of them, sold out. The tour covers every corner of Ireland and the UK and in March takes her from the Wexford National Opera House to Moscow and back to the INEC in Killarney. It also includes four sold out shows in the London Palladium – that’s 9,200 seats – and a recently announced show in London’s iconic Apollo Theatre in October. That venue holds 3,632 people and has played host to acts like Elton John, Oasis and Kylie. Wow.
When I speak to Joanne, she’s on the road to Cork to do the first of her Everyman shows. She has 10 there altogether and then comes back to do The Marquee in June.
