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Christmas Craic’er
There are just two actors in this show, the comedians Conor Grimes and Alan McKee. Christmas Craic’er is made up of a series of sketches devised by the two and characterised by quick changes in costumes. The scenery stays the same although occasionally a table and a couple of trolleys are employed as props. One musician keeps the tunes going throughout the show.
The Set
In the centre of the stage in a golden light a group of higgledy piggledy houses are piled one above the other. They have striped colourful windows and bright doors, the two at the lowest level made of coloured ribbons, one purple, one orange, which shift and flap in the breeze, catching the light. The two front houses are surrounded by a terrace about 8 feet above the ground, protected by ornamental railings. Beneath the terrace at ground level is a grey garage type door. The housing complex is contained within a group of purple flats decorated with squiggles which emerge from either side of the stage shielding whatever is behind them. On either side of the houses are purple steps which lead up to the terrace level. There are plants in pots on the terrace and on ledges as well as at ground level and in front of the garage door is a bench. At far right front of the stage is an impressive keyboard with a microphone beside it. There is also a drum kit on the far left of the stage but this is not ever used.
The Cast and Costumes
Conor is white haired with a white beard and a smiling oval face with a narrow mouth. He is tall and thin. In contrast Alan has dark hair and a square face. He is shorter than Conor and slightly broader. Both comedians wear sparkling jackets over dark grey trousers and T shirts. Alan’s jacket is bright red with contrasting dark grey reveres and Conor’s is a sparkling cream with dark grey reveres. Later they arrive in high visibility jackets with hard hats decorated with tinsel, worn over their grey trousers and T shirts. Another change of clothes and they wear luminous head and wrist bands and coloured T shirts, then Conor wears a shop-keepers fawn coat with a dunsha workman’s cap. When sitting by the musician they wear waist-coats and later they don brightly coloured anoracks . Conor as a clergyman later wears a black cassock with an cream embroidered stole over it and of course a dog collar. He is joined by a dark suited Alan, also with a dog collar round his neck. Alan wears bright blue rubber gloves and apron and Conor an unstructured light grey jacket with a Santa hat in the homing of the dog scene and later Alan is in a red windcheater and Conor in a grey one with red stripes and a football bobble hat.
There are just two actors in this show, the comedians Conor Grimes and Alan McKee. Christmas Craic’er is made up of a series of sketches devised by the two and characterised by quick changes in costumes. The scenery stays the same although occasionally a table and a couple of trolleys are employed as props. One musician keeps the tunes going throughout the show.
The Set
In the centre of the stage in a golden light a group of higgledy piggledy houses are piled one above the other. They have striped colourful windows and bright doors, the two at the lowest level made of coloured ribbons, one purple, one orange, which shift and flap in the breeze, catching the light. The two front houses are surrounded by a terrace about 8 feet above the ground, protected by ornamental railings. Beneath the terrace at ground level is a grey garage type door. The housing complex is contained within a group of purple flats decorated with squiggles which emerge from either side of the stage shielding whatever is behind them. On either side of the houses are purple steps which lead up to the terrace level. There are plants in pots on the terrace and on ledges as well as at ground level and in front of the garage door is a bench. At far right front of the stage is an impressive keyboard with a microphone beside it. There is also a drum kit on the far left of the stage but this is not ever used.
The Cast and Costumes
Conor is white haired with a white beard and a smiling oval face with a narrow mouth. He is tall and thin. In contrast Alan has dark hair and a square face. He is shorter than Conor and slightly broader. Both comedians wear sparkling jackets over dark grey trousers and T shirts. Alan’s jacket is bright red with contrasting dark grey reveres and Conor’s is a sparkling cream with dark grey reveres. Later they arrive in high visibility jackets with hard hats decorated with tinsel, worn over their grey trousers and T shirts. Another change of clothes and they wear luminous head and wrist bands and coloured T shirts, then Conor wears a shop-keepers fawn coat with a dunsha workman’s cap. When sitting by the musician they wear waist-coats and later they don brightly coloured anoracks . Conor as a clergyman later wears a black cassock with an cream embroidered stole over it and of course a dog collar. He is joined by a dark suited Alan, also with a dog collar round his neck. Alan wears bright blue rubber gloves and apron and Conor an unstructured light grey jacket with a Santa hat in the homing of the dog scene and later Alan is in a red windcheater and Conor in a grey one with red stripes and a football bobble hat.
