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theatre · Tuesday 29 September 2026 · 8:00pm 
Stones in His Pockets
At Esker Arts · High Street, Tullamore, Co. Offaly
At Esker Arts · High Street, Tullamore, Co. Offaly
Colin Hughes and Chris Corroon bring Marie Jones’s Olivier Award-winning tragicomedy Stones in His Pockets to Esker Arts in Tullamore for a week-long run from Tuesday, 29 September to Sunday, 4 October 2026. The play follows a small rural Irish village turned upside down when a Hollywood film crew arrives to shoot a movie there, and the culture clash between the crew’s romanticised idea of Ireland and the reality the villagers actually live. Performances run nightly at 8pm, with tickets priced at €25.
Stones in His Pockets is built around just two actors, Hughes and Corroon, who between them play every character in the story, from the film extras and the visiting Hollywood star to the crew and the villagers themselves, switching parts within seconds through voice and physicality alone. Marie Jones’s script won the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy after its West End transfer and has been produced around the world since, prized for being both very funny and genuinely sharp about how rural Ireland gets packaged for outside consumption. It is a demanding, fast-moving two-hander rather than a large-cast production, and the week-long run at Esker Arts gives it more stage time than the venue’s usual one or two-night shows.
Esker Arts is on High Street in Tullamore town centre, within walking distance of the main car parks and the O’Connor Square bus stop.
A week-long run makes it easy to fit the play around a wider trip to Tullamore, with the Grand Canal harbour and the Tullamore DEW distillery quarter both close by. There is more to see across Co. Offaly.
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