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06 Sept 2025

Love/Hate star set for new play coming to Waterford's Theatre Royal

Falling to Earth - My Summer with Bowie is directed by Eugene O'Brien

Love/Hate star set for new play coming to Waterford's Theatre Royal

Verdant Productions has announced the highly anticipated nationwide tour of Falling to Earth – My Summer With Bowie by Eugene O’Brien following its sold out premiere at Dublin Theatre Festival.

Starring Stephen Jones of Love/Hate, Ripper Street and From Eden fame with performances in Dublin, Waterford, Cork, Wicklow and Belfast starting 12 May through to 21 June 2025.

Falling to Earth will play for two nights in Waterford's Theatre Royal on Wednesday June 4 and Thursday 5.

The story follows a man who feels like an alien in his own home town. Single. Loveless. Carer for a Dad who had never shown much care to him. His only solace the music of Ziggy/the thin white duke/ the man who fell to earth with his spiders from Mars.

Now Scut Kelly is about to have the most extraordinary summer of his life where fantasy becomes reality. When fate conspires to grant him face to face time with his idol. The living legend. But can Scut handle this new planet and all its possibilities or will he fall back to earth with a bang.

Tickets are on sale now.

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