© Fairbank Productions 2008
© Fairbank Productions 2008
© Fairbank Productions 2008
Written and performed by Aidan Dooley
‘a remarkable and uplifting piece
of theatre, gives everything and
asks nothing.’
Emer O’Kelly
Sunday Independent Dublin
Tom Crean – Antarctic Explorer written and performed by Aidan Dooley premiered at The New York International Fringe Festival in August 2003, where it won the ‘Best Solo Performance Award’. In the same year the show played the Dublin Fringe Festival, where it picked up a ‘Best Actor Nomination’.
Tom Crean (1877 – 1938) the intrepid Antarctic explorer and one of Ireland’s unsung heroes, is brought to, life in this dramatic and humorous solo performance by Aidan Dooley.
Hear the riveting true stories of Crean’s Antarctic explorations as one of the few
men to serve with both Scott and Shackleton and survive three famous expeditions:
Discovery, (1901 – 1904); Terra Nova (1910 – 1913); and Endurance (1914 -
Crean’s story is a testament of human fortitude against all the elements of Antarctic, his 36 mile, solitary trek to base camp during the Terra Nova expedition to rescue his comrades Teddy Evans and William Lashly has been described by Antarctic historians as “the finest feat of individual heroism from the entire age of exploration”.
