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comedy · Sunday 20 September 2026 · 8:00pm 
How's Your Father?
At Watergate Theatre · Parliament Street, Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny
At Watergate Theatre · Parliament Street, Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny
How’s Your Father? brings Irish comedian Conal Gallen’s touring farce to the Watergate Theatre in Kilkenny on Sunday, 20 September 2026. Written by Gallen with his father Rory Gallen, the show is billed as “a non-stop, laugh a minute riot of craic, confusion and constant laughter”, built around a mystery-filled plot involving a B&B owner, her husband, a priest and a jockey. It is a straight comedy booking rather than a drama, drawing on Gallen’s decades on the Irish stand-up and variety circuit.
The show is a fast-moving farce rather than a stand-up set, with a small cast of characters working through a tangle of misunderstandings in and around a bed and breakfast. Gallen has toured variations of this format around Ireland’s regional theatres for years, and the Watergate booking is pitched at an adult audience, recommended for ages 16 and over given the broad, innuendo-driven comedy typical of this style of show. Expect a full-length performance played for laughs rather than subtlety, in the kind of broad comic style that has kept Gallen’s live shows popular with returning audiences on the touring theatre circuit for years. It is the sort of night out built around one big laugh after another rather than a slow build.
The Watergate Theatre is on Parliament Street in Kilkenny city centre, close to the Black Abbey and a short walk from the Parade. Kilkenny’s train and bus station is around a ten-minute walk away, and on-street and multi-storey parking is available nearby, though a Sunday evening show usually means less competition for spaces than a weekday.
Parliament Street is one of the older parts of the city, with several pubs and restaurants close enough for a pre-show meal. There is more to see in Kilkenny and across Co. Kilkenny.
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