Madonna and I
Schedule
Sat, 22 Nov, 2025 at 08:00 pm
UTC+00:00Location
Garter Lane Arts Centre | Waterford, WD
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Madonna and I by John Aspill
John Aspill’s Madonna and I is a bold, glitter-dusted monologue that manages to be both uproariously funny and unexpectedly tender.
Framed by the beats and ballads of Madonna herself, this autobiographical solo piece takes the audience on a no-holds-barred ride dodging prejudice, surviving loss, and clinging to pop idols like life rafts.
From the Dublin tenements to a randy youth, via circus shenanigans and heroic drag queen rescues, Madonna and I is one man’s fascinating, funny, and intimate carousel of memory: vivid, theatrical, and often devastatingly real.
“Frivolous but serious too… self-deprecatingly funny… a wonderful, tender moment at the end of his circus adventures.”
— Liam Murphy, The Munster Express
Part theatre, part confessional, and laced with Madonna tracks like Hanky Panky and Like a Virgin, the performance pulses with both camp and catharsis. Aspill’s tenor voice and comic timing are a joy, but it’s the raw honesty — around family, sexuality, and survival — that lingers.
The show builds to a crescendo of queer joy and righteous rage — and just when you think he’s won the battle of self-acceptance, he throws in a darkly comic twist: “And then — bloody World War Three happens!”.
This is solo theatre at its best: personal, political, and packed with heart.
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Where is it happening?
Garter Lane Arts Centre, O'Connel St.,Waterford, IrelandEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
