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The wedding offers the perfect combination for comedy, of
I work as a creative director in the advertising industry, and I write and perform in my spare time. Both Colman Hayes and I have written and directed short films but
An ambitious one man show about relationships, regrets and
In October of the same year we submitted our Idea to Scene + Heard, a festival of new work.
We did have to do a lot of reassurance to our friends and family that we were actually fine,
After Scene + Heard, Lucy Ryan (Smock Alley’s director of programming) invited us to do a full run last October.

Colman Hayes in Best Man
hey say, when it comes to a best man’s speech, you should think of it
like a mini-skirt.
course. The pomposity, the often too-long and very boring ceremony, the growing hunger, the drink, the nerves, the jealousy, the flirtations, the desperation, and then, more drink.

Best Man is our first proper foray into Theatre. I originally met Colman through Improv comedy, I asked him to read something I’d written and he asked If I’d be interested in writing something together, so I pitched him the nugget of an idea I had – A best man speech that spirals out of control.
reality checks.

Such an amazing process, to go from thoughts to a fully actualised thing in such a short space of time. We had a lot of fun writing and developing it together, but we were always a little worried that what we found funny wouldn’t translate to a broader audience. Also, a big part of the show is Colman interacting with the audience as
though they’re the congregation at the wedding, and we really were just guessing how they might respond and trying to write his interactions based on those blind guesses. Like writing crowd work without the crowd.

