Dates/Times/Venue/Location
Sat 02 May @ 6:45pm, SQUEAK - Brighton
Sun 03 May @ 6:45pm, SQUEAK - Brighton
Mon 04 May @ 6:45pm, SQUEAK - Brighton
Tue 05 May @ 6:45pm, SQUEAK - Brighton
Wed 06 May @ 6:45pm, SQUEAK - Brighton
Thur 07 May @ 6:45pm, SQUEAK - Brighton
‘If I Didn’t Laugh I’d Cry’ tells the story of the life of the late Frank Carson, the much loved Northern Irish comedian. This moving and powerful one-man show is written and performed by Irish actor-comedian Mike McCabe, who is a stand-up himself.
He met Frank in the late seventies on the set of the TV show ‘The Comedians’. Frank was so taken with Mike’s impression of him, he bought him drinks for the rest of the evening and they became close friends.
‘If I Didn’t Laugh I’d Cry’ tells the story of Frank’s rise to fame and it also gives an insight into some of the tragedy that Carson suffered during his life; including when he killed the sniper who shot him in the leg during the war in Palestine; how he survived two heart attacks and how he coped, when in the 1980s, his TV work dried up because he was thought to be too ‘old-fashioned’ for television.
Mike McCabe has been performing stand up for ~50 years and has appeared on tv shows such as Comedians (1988), he won New Faces (1986), on the silver screen in Michael Collins with Liam Neeson & Blue Money with Tim Curry and Billy Connolly, he has stared in the West End performing in The Wier (1995) at The Duke of York Theatre. He’s thrilled to bring The Frank Carson Story: If I Didn’t Laugh I’d Cry back to Brighton where he resides.
Running time: 60min
Suitable for Age 14+
Warnings: TBC
REVIEWS
Spectrum Radio
‘A deeply moving and touching tribute’
The Stage
‘Mike McCabe is a genuinely funny man’
Belfast Telegraph
‘McCabe had them rolling in the aisles’
Glasgow Herald
‘His characterisations are sharp and very funny’
CREATIVES
Produced by Mike Leigh
Proudly Presented by Hotspur Media
CAST:
Mike McCaber
