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[title]This feel-good pub night-meets-performance was a sellout hit at the 2017 and 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and had a successful season at the Sydney Opera House earlier this year. Now it's returning for an encore season sure to warm your heart and get your feet tapping along to an eclectic soundtrack packed with pop bangers.
In the setting of a beautifully recreated pub (complete with working beer tap and free pints for those who arrive early enough), nine blokes from England and Ireland belt out harmonies from the likes of Guns n’ Roses, Adele, the Proclaimers, Sia and even the odd Broadway classic, accompanied by tap dancing, arm wrestling and beer mug percussion. There’s even a sing-along to John Farnham.
When we caught its original Opera House season earlier this year, we said, in a four-star review:
"The performers are experts in bringing the crowd along with them as they play music on guitars, banjos and fiddles, and tap-dance their way through the night. There is some audience participation, but you’re likely to at least get a free drink out of it."
The show has plenty of friendly banter about the importance of such spaces for men’s mental health and building communities, which makes this a surprisingly moving and subtly political show in a time when pubs are being forced to close up shop all around the world.
The Choir of Man returns to the Opera House this November.
