Andrew O'Neill

Magick works. In really annoying ways. In February 2015 Andrew O’Neill Is Trapped Down A Well was nominated for Best show at the Leicester Comedy Festival, and the subsequent tour won acclaim in several countries (3). O’Neill was looking forward to polishing it up ready for the Edinburgh Fringe.

After an intense invocation of Thoth/Hermes/Mercury, the trickster god responsible for the spoken word, a WhatsApp message arrived from a friend currently working at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival informing Andrew of the show Nic Sampson Has Fallen Down A Well.

Taking this coincidence as an enormous magickal kick up the arse, (and a sign that the show idea wasn’t as original as he’d hoped), O’Neill presents a much more interesting show about magick, coincidence, and originality, with all the best jokes of that other show crudely crowbared in! Hooray!