Kearney
is refreshingly frank - Extra
Extra
A
carefully crafted script
- Time Out
Kearney
makes us relive the intense excitement of flirtation
across the dancefloor- The
Stage
Taut,
Sharp... Kaleidoscopic sub-plots
- QX Magazine
Kearney
is a very confident and competent writer who understands
how to keep an audience entertained - Theatreworld
affectionate
humour and rampant nostalgia - My Cultural
Life
Madonna
and Me mirrors life both painfully and truthfully - Southwark
News
More information:
Tommy was born and bred in Whiston, Merseyside. He wrote
a play in a day and the result was ‘Last
Christmas’ about
a family Christmas from hell that was quite comical.
The play was given a rehearsed reading by the
Big Wheel Theatre
Company at the Clerkenwell Theatre,
Islington, London.
His second play 'Windermere' was staged at the Clerkenwell
Theatre in April 2006 as part of a new writing festival
and played to full houses. This play charted the lives
of a young talented footballer and his neighbour a talented
artist.
Maggie, his third play was inspired by a true story.
This was staged at the Hen & Chickens Theatre in November 2006 and was well received. The play
tackled the issue of mental health within the
family.
Madonna and Me is his fourth play.
Madonna and Me opened in April 2007
at the Union Theatre, Southwark, London then transferred
to the Jermyn Street Theatre, Piccadilly Circus,
London later in the July of that year. In January
2008, Madonna and me moved to Merseyside, the plays
home turf to the Actors Studio in Liverpool to open
the European Capital of Culture celebrations. After
a hugley successful run, Madonna and Me returned
to the Actors Studio in September along with Windermere for a Tommy Kearney mini season.
March 2009 Sebastian a short dramatic
play was performed at the Lillian Bayliss Theatre,
London. In April 2009, Little Boy debuted at
the Union Theatre in London and then moved to the
NOVAS CUC in Liverpool in November 2009 as part of
the Homotopia festival.
In December 2009, three shorts, Five
One, Immaculate Deception and the Pearl
and the Vestment were performed in Hackney in London.
A Bad Day another
short was taken on tour by the Bootleg Theatre Company
in November 2010 as a part of Snapshots.
In January 2011, Six by One was
staged at the Hen and Chickens Theatre in London. Five
One, Pearl and the Vestment, A
Bad Day, Immaculate Deception, Sebastian, together
with the debut of Respect as a celebration
of Tommy Kearney's USA debut with Madonna and Me.
Tommy has been an avid follower of Madonna’s
career and sees her as a source of inspiration.
Madonna and Me is dedicated to the Madonna Fans around
the world and their friends. |
