Falling to Earth: My Summer With Bowie will tour Ireland from May 12 to June 21, 2025, with performances in Dublin, Waterford, Cork, Wicklow, and Belfast.

The David Bowie-inspired play, starring Stephen Jones (Northern Lights, Into The Badlands), was written by Eugene O'Brien and directed by Jim Nolan.

"He feels like an alien in his own home town. Single. Loveless. Carer for a Dad who had never shown much care to him," reads the production's logline. "His only solace is 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, will Scut be able to handle this new planet and all its possibilities or will he fall back to earth with a bang?"

 

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Stephen Jones is a Tallaght-born actor and playwright. His play Northern Lights (2018) and its TV show adaptation, which Jones wrote himself, garnered him nominations for an IFTA for Best Drama Script and for an Irish Times Theatre Award for Best New Play, among other accolades.

Eugene O'Brien is an Irish playwright and actor, whose play Eden (2001) received the Irish Times Theatre Award, the Stewart Parker Award and the Rooney Prize for Literature. His play Heaven won the Irish Times Theatre Award for Best New Play.