Setting off to Europe for his family’s first-ever large-scale reunion, Dockery instead finds himself mistakenly lost and alone on a farm in Hungary at the largest psy-trance festival in the world. In this brand new comedy about family, thoroughly thwarted expectations, and having no tent in the rain, Dockery takes us on an absurd odyssey as he soberly searches for his cousin amidst 10,000 inebriated revelers. “A masterful storyteller.” –The Herald Sun, Melbourne, Australia. “This New York based performer is one of those guys who could probably make a grocery list sound fascinating.” –CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp)
Storyteller and comic Ophira Eisenberg performs 30 minutes of the best stories from her upcoming book, conveniently by the same title
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Martin Dockery
(Performer)
Martin Dockery is a frequent performer in New York’s storytelling scene. Over the past three years, he’s created six monologues and one play, performing them across North America and Australia. His four autobiographical, theatrical monologues Wanderlust, The Surprise, (both directed by Jean-Michele Gregory), The Bike Trip, The Holy Land Experience, and his two fictional monologues, Bursting Into Flames and The Dark Fantastic have enjoyed successful runs in New York City, San Francisco, Orlando, London, Toronto, Winnipeg, Fresno, Charleston, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Victoria, Vancouver, Bellingham, Seattle, New Orleans, Phoenix, Ottawa, Adelaide (where he won the 2011 Critics Circle Award), The 2012 Melbourne Comedy Festival, and The 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He also headlined the 2011 London Storytelling Festival. In 2011 & 2012, Martin performed Oh, That Wily Snake! with actress Vanessa Quesnelle in Fresno, Orlando, London, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Vancouver, and New York City. The play also appears in the McGraw-Hill anthology textbook Literature. He received a B.A. in English from Kenyon College (winning the Paul Newman award for acting) and an M.F.A. in playwriting from Columbia University.
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Ophira Eisenberg
(Performer)
Selected as one of New York Magazine's Top 10 Comics and featured in the New York Times, Ophira Eisenberg has appeared on Comedy Central and VH-1. She is the host of NPR's new trivia and puzzle show, Ask Me Another and a regular host and storyteller with The Moth. Her writing has been published in five anthologies including I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America's Top Comics and Heeb Magazine's collection Sex, Drugs & Gefilte Fish. Her own debut memoir will be coming out in Spring 2014.
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