Wonderland Theatre ©2003-2009
Wonderland Productions proudly presents
Life Shop Till You Drop!
The hilarious rise and fall of Ireland's first self-help guru.

Following four sell-out National tours from 2007 to 2009, Life Shop till you Drop! will start its fifth nationwide tour in April 2010.

Life Shop till you Drop! is the Sassy Girl’s Self-Help Solution.

Ailish McGovern is an unfulfilled Recruitment Consultant. For Ailish life would be perfect if she had a marriage proposal, a glamorous job and most importantly won Irish Tatler Woman of the Year. And so she selects 2009 as the year in which she will transform her life, by applying all of the instructions and mantras of self-help gurus.

Join Ailish, as she goes speed dating, feng shui's her 100% mortgaged apartment and targets the perfect boyfriend, using the New York manual ‘Your soul mate is out there and missing you.’ Next on her hit list is taking over her boss' job using ‘The work secrets only successful people know!’

However it seems that no self-help book that she has studied, teaches that pride comes before a fall. A cautionary tale, or more likely, a wickedly fun spoof on our love of going life shopping.

Life Shop till you Drop begun life in January 2007 in Bewleys Café Theatre Dublin. Thus far it has played four National Tours, over 100 performances and enjoyed successful tours to Abu Dhabi, the Cork Midsummer Festival, Belfast’s Out to Lunch Festival, Dun Laoghaire’s Pavilion Theatre, The Belltable Arts Centre Limerick, The Helix DCU, Draoicht Blanchardstown, The Civic Theatre Tallaght, Galway, Navan, Roscommon, Wexford, Virginia, Carrick on Shannon, Drogheda, Dundalk, Longford, Tipperary, Birr, Greystones, Tinahely, Monaghan and Naas. It will tour Ireland on a fifth National Tour from April 2010.

Tour Details

Where: Glór, Ennis, Co. Clare
When: Friday 9th April
Booking: 065 6845370
Online: www.glor.ie

Where: Iontas, Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan
When: Saturday 17th April
Booking: 042 975 3400
Online: www.iontascastleblayney.ie

Where: Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge
When: Thursday April 22nd
Booking: 045 448 327
Online: www.riverbank.ie   Map It

Where: Langton’s Theatre, Kilkenny
When: Friday April 23rd
Online: www.langtons.ie

Where: Town Hall Theatre, Galway
When: Wednesday 28th April
Booking: 091 569777
Online: www.townhalltheatregalway.com

Where: Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray
When: Thursday 20th May
Booking: 01 2724030
Online:    
As part of Wonderland’s Residency at Mermaid Arts Centre Bray

Where: The Source Arts Centre
            Thurles, Co. Tipperary
When: Friday 21st May, 2010
Bookings: 0504 90204
www.thesourceartscentre.ie   Map It

Where: Lough Gur Festival, Co. Limerick.
When: Saturday 19th June
Bookings: 061 385 386


More national dates in Dublin and Sligo, and international dates at Edinburgh Festival Fringe to be confirmed soon.


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Marie O'Riordan of Arty Facts: Out & About for KFM (Radio Kildare) interviews Alice Coghlan and Clodagh Reid after seeing Life Shop at the Moat Theatre in Naas    Click & Listen...

Alice Coghlan and Clodagh Reid talk about Life Shop till you Drop!
on Roisin Ingle’s Saturday morning Newstalk radio show   Click & Listen...

Clodagh Reid in Studio where Ailish McGovern herself, Barry Barton her first beau an Advertising Consultant from Blackrock, Concepta the owner of A Stor mo Chroi dating agency, and Elizabeth her boss at Shooting Star Recruitment all drop in for a chat on EastCoast FM    Click & Listen...
Credits
From Wonderland Productions Ltd.
Starring:  Clodagh Reid

The Production Team
Written/Directed:  Alice Coghlan
Devised in collaboration with:  Clodagh Reid
Original idea by:  Alice Coghlan
Original Sound:  Robert Delahunty
Costume Design:  Aisling NicEoin
Lighting Design:  Moyra D'Arcy
Set Design:  Alice Coghlan
Producer:  Gordon Gaffney
Photography:  Steve Wilson