Chicken
Don Murphy is a proud Irish man, a hopeless ketamine addict and one of his generation’s greatest actors. He also happens to be a chicken. Across one fateful night, the feathered Oscar winner shares his story with an intimate audience - from getting his big break, to his first bird on bird sexual experience, to navigating life in the celebrity spotlight. But along the way Don will be confronted with some harsh truths about himself, chicken kind and humankind.
Winner of Filipa Bragança award for best female identifying/ non-binary solo performer at the Edinburgh Fringe 2023. Winner of Best Performer at the Dublin Fringe 2024.
★★★★★ Broadway Baby
★★★★★ The Skinny
"This show where a woman who plays a chicken who thinks he's an Irishman is unlike anything you've ever seen." Playbill
Presented by: Eva O'Connor (Sunday's Child) in association with Joanne Hartstone
Sunday's Child is an Irish theatre company run by Eva O'Connor and Hildegard Ryan. Their shows include My Name is Saoirse, Overshadowed (now a series on BBC), MUSTARD (winner of Scotsman Fringe First 2019, and Adelaide Critics Circle award) and Chicken (winner of Filipa Braganca award Edinburgh Fringe 2023, and Best Performer Award Dublin Fringe 2024). Sunday's Child runs FUTURE LIMERICK, Irelands first ever climate arts festival.
Joanne Hartstone is a multi-award winning South Australian theatre maker, performer, playwright, director, producer and curatorial presenter, specialising in international theatrical collaborations, live theatre & cabaret, and immersive/site-specific events. Joanne has been presenting work in the Adelaide Fringe since 2006. www.joannehartstone.com
Reviews & Fringe Feed Reacts
Eva O'Connor's solo show Chicken is a masterful look at oppressive power structures from media hegemony to the global meat industry - The Skinny
If you need to restore your faith in what Fringe theatre has to offer, look no further than Eva O’Connor’s Chicken. - Broadway Baby
Clucking clever stuff - The Stage