Musical show with live music from the producers of Seven Drunken Nights, bringing the charm of a traditional Irish Christmas pub to the stage.
Christmas in Ireland comes to the Princess Theatre on Tuesday 10 November, bringing a bit of the Emerald Isle to Torquay well before the actual holiday kicks in. It's a musical show that sets the whole evening around a single scene: a traditional Irish pub on Christmas Eve, with friends old and new gathered inside to share songs, stories and memories of Christmases gone by while the snow falls outside. The music is played live throughout, and the musicians weave their own stories into the set as the night goes on.
The setlist pulls from a few different places. You'll hear timeless Irish classics and powerful ballads alongside some of the Christmas songs that usually crop up this time of year, with Driving Home For Christmas, Dirty Old Town and Fairytale Of New York among the hits they'll be working through. It's a mix of the familiar and the specifically Irish, so it works whether you're there for the holiday side of things or the folk side.
Behind the show is a cast of musicians and singers from the producers of Seven Drunken Nights, the same team that put that one together. They've toured Christmas in Ireland across the UK, and this is the Torquay stop on the run. The whole thing is built around that pub atmosphere — the songs, the stories and the sense of people coming together — so it's more of a night out than a formal concert.
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It's at the Princess Theatre on Torquay Road, TQ2 5EZ, on Tuesday 10 November, starting at 7:30pm. Tickets start from £28.60.
