Dara Ó Briain is bringing Re:Creation to Melbourne this November

Dara Ó Briain hasn’t toured Australia since 2019, and Re:Creation marks the return of one of the more reliably quick comics working the international circuit. The Melbourne date puts him at Hamer Hall in early November, one stop on a tour that also takes in New Zealand and Singapore.

Ó Briain has spent more than 20 years building a reputation on improvised crowd-work, the kind of show where a decent chunk of the night is spun out of whoever happens to be sitting in the front rows. He’s best known to a lot of viewers as the long-running host of Mock the Week, though the live shows are where the crowd-work really runs loose.

Dara Ó Briain: Re:Creation

• Perth – 4 November – Riverside Theatre
• Adelaide – 6 November – Norwood Concert Hall
• Melbourne – 9 November – Hamer Hall
• Brisbane – 10 November – Fortitude Music Hall
• Sydney – 11 November – State Theatre
• Wellington – 14 November – St James Theatre
• Christchurch – 16 November – Isaac Theatre Royal
• Auckland – 17 November – Bruce Mason Centre
• Singapore – 20 November – Capitol Theatre

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Re:Creation follows his last tour, So, Where Were We?, which the promoter says played 173 venues across 20 countries and picked up a UK comedy tour of the year nod. The new show leans back into what he does best: standing on a stage, telling stories and letting the room take him somewhere unplanned.

Alongside the touring, Ó Briain has a long list of television credits, from hosting The Panel in Ireland to a run of science and panel programmes in the UK. He’s also written books for both adults and children, which is not the usual side hustle for a stand-up.

The Australian and New Zealand dates sit under the wider Just For Laughs Sydney banner, part of a cluster of international comics making the trip out this November. For Melbourne, though, the Hamer Hall show is the one to circle.

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