Theatre and Dance
Tom Crean - Antarctic Explorer
31 January 2012
19:30
£8 Full / £5 Conc
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**** - Irish Daily Mail **** - The Scotsman
“a remarkable and uplifting piece of theatre, gives everything and asks nothing.” - Sunday Independent
* Winner of Fringe First in Edinburgh 2006
* Best Solo performance award winner - New York International Fringe Festival 2003
* Best Actor nomination - Dublin Fringe Festival 2003
Experience Aidan Dooley’s award winning one-man play as it tells the heroic tale of Tom Crean (1877 – 1938), the intrepid, Irish Antarctic explorer and the only man to serve with Capt. Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton on three famous expeditions: Discovery, (1901 – 1904); Terra Nova (1910 – 1913); and Endurance (1914 - 1916).
Tom Crean – Antarctic Explorer written and performed by Aidan Dooley premiered at The New York International Fringe Festival in August 2003, where it won the ‘Best Solo Performance Award’. In the same year the show played the Dublin Fringe Festival, where it picked up a ‘Best Actor Nomination’.