Patrick Combs brings his smash hit one-man show MAN 1, BANK 0 to Thurles

Back by huge public demand and following his extensive and super-successful Irish tour last June, U.S. writer, director and theatre performer Patrick Combs returns to Ireland with his smash hit one-man show, ‘Man 1 Bank 0’. The show performed at 19 venues in 2011 telling his most fascinating real life story and Combs has been asked to come back with a new extensive tour for 2012 to a further 10 venues in Ireland this March.

‘Man 1, Bank 0’ is Combs’ amazing-but-true story of how he deposited a $95,000 junk-mail cheque into his own bank account and about what happens after his bank cashes the ridiculously large sum of money into his personal bank account. This outrageously funny and dramatic story quickly becomes a staggering David V’s Goliath-like real-life adventure. Comb’s magnetically interesting show was quickly a ‘smash hit’ in North America & New Zealand performing to sold out shows in New York; Montreal; Los Angeles; San Francisco (“Best of Fest” & “Best Solo Comedy”); Auckland; HBO’s 2004 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival & “Critic’s Choice” at the Spoleto Festival to name a few – and of course throughout Ireland and Northern Ireland last summer. Critically acclaimed by Time Out, New York as “Incredulous… gleeful…” – “Extraordinary”, Irish Mail On Sunday / “an astonishing tale”, Metro Herald, this must-see one-man comedy has storytelling down to a fine art after already wowing audiences across the globe.

Described by BroadwayWorld.com as “One of the FUNNIEST, most FASCINATING and FASTEST moving solo plays to hit New York in many a season. Ninety minutes of NONSTOP LAUGHTER, it’s also an EDGE OF YOUR SEAT ADVENTURE loaded with UNBELIEVABLE real-life surprises”

So what happens after the bank cashes the ridiculous cheque? To name only a few things: angry banking officers threaten Combs with “jail time”, “death” and much more; the incident extracts America’s leading authority on banking out of retirement; ‘Man 1, Bank 0’ explains the astonishing legal twists which ensued after the incident; and worldwide media coverage (including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Good Morning America and calls from Letterman & Leno).

Originally the show sold out in New York during its off-Broadway run at the Lambs Theatre, Times Square, for its entire thirty two shows and it did just the same here in 2011 across the country. It also sold out at HBO’s 2004 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival held
in Aspen; sold out its six show run and garnered “Critic’s Choice” at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston; sold out its 10 show run in Winnipeg where it created 3 hour ticket lines, hundreds were turned away and it garnered the

“Best of Fest” award; sold out the Comedy Central Stage in Los Angeles; won “Best of Fest” at the San Francisco Fringe where it also sold out and was awarded “Best Solo Comedy”; sold out in Auckland where it was an official selection of the New Zealand International Comedy Festival; sold out in Montreal and won the Just For Laughs prize for Best Comedy.

If you missed the show the last time now is your opportunity to see this ‘MUST SEE’ performance from Patrick Combs as it will be staged at a venue near you as part of his new 2012 nationwide Irish tour, this March.

ABOUT PATRICK COMBS:
Patrick Combs is a writer, director and theater performer has established a multi-faceted career that defies categorization.

Man 1 Bank 0, his first solo show, has enjoyed smash hit, sold out runs Off-Broadway in New York, at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, at HBO’s Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, at the NZ Comedy Festival in Auckland, and at more than 200 theaters around the U.S.

As a speaker he has inspired more than one thousand audiences at universities and companies nationwide including Shell, Motorola, Visa, Stanford, Penn and NYU since 1992. His writings, posted on the internet, have been read by millions and designated as “What’s Cool” by Yahoo! and many more. He is the author of three best-selling books and is also former TV personality for Paramount’s hit shows, Real TV and Hard Copy where he was the star of humorous hidden camera segments. Patrick is co-founder of two global companies, his latest called MIGHT, which helps creatives, mavericks and the foolhardy ones rock their dreams. And he has appeared on many national TV shows including Good Morning America, CNN, The View and The Late Show.

Comb’s has personally been described by Time Out NY as: “A wiry, likable West Coast dude who combines hippie earnestness with skateboarder cynicism, Combs has refined his storytelling to an art, using a screen projector, a minimum of props and abundant energy to relate a tale about which he still seems incredulous — and gleeful…”

BOOKING & LISTINGS INFORMATION

Royal Theatre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo
Opens Sunday March 11 | 8.00pm | €22.65
Box Office – 0818 300 000 | www.theroyal.ie

Cork Opera House
Runs Tuesday March 13 | 8.00pm | €25 / €20
Box Office –  (021) 427 022 | www.corkoperahouse.ie

Set Theatre, Kilkenny
Runs Wednesday March 14 | 8.00pm | €17.50
Box Office –  (056) 772 1728 | www.set.ie

The Source Arts Centre, Thurles, Co. Tipperary
Runs Thursday March 15 | 8.00pm | €18
Box Office –  (0504) 902 04 | www.thesourceartscentre.ie

Glór, Ennis, Co. Clare
Runs Friday March 16 | 8.00pm | €22 / €20
Box Office –  (065) 6843 103 | www.glor.ie

INEC, Killarney, Co. Kerry
Runs Sunday March 18 | 8.30pm | €22.65
Box Office –  (064) 667 1555 | www.inec.ie

Theatre Royal, Waterford
Runs Monday March 19 | 8.00pm | €20 / €18
Box Office –  (051) 874 402 | www.theatreroyal.ie

Olympia Theatre, Dublin
Runs Wednesday March 21 – Sunday March 25 | 8.00pm | from €25
Box Office – 0818 719 300 – (Rep. of Ireland Customers) | www.ticketmaster.ie

Balor Arts Centre, Ballybofey, Co. Donegal
Runs Monday March 26 | 8.30pm | €15
Box Office – (074) 91 31840 | www.balorartscentre.com

Hawkswell Theatre, Sligo
Runs Tuesday March 27 | 8.00pm | €18 / €16 (conc)
Box Office –  (071) 916 1518 | www.hawkswell.com

Further information or Group Bookings contact local venues or for tour info log onto :: www.man1bank0.com