Joanne Mitchell has spent the last year writing and touring in ‘Living With Johnny Depp’
The theatre on the top floor of Bewleys is old-world. On the stage are a tall filing cabinet and a teacher’s whiteboard. The music playing is Westlife.

On the tables are Shania Sweeney’s Junior Certificate results, an NG. “It all happened… like… because I wrote about Johnny Depp in my mocks. Oh ma God, I like totally love Johnny Depp!”

Joanne plays the Sligo schoolgirl who takes ‘write about what you know’ quite literally, couples her fantasies with her exam-taking, exposing her teacher to unsuitable scenes.
Miss Murphy has a few unsuitable scenes of her own, and Joanne plays this scandalously, as a total skit, while we in the audience are her class pupils! We are paying attention but we are in stitches laughing.

When Shania is finally dragged into the Principal’s office, the somewhat sultry, angry Miss Ingoldsby, who is going to have to expel her student, the performance takes on manic proportions.

Joanne has her swigging from a bottle of vodka between rants and she finally climbs on top of the filing cabinet in her demented state. “Do you think Johhny Depp can save you, Shania? Do you think Johnny Depp even knows who you are?”

This is highly comic performing and writing by Joanne Mitchell. It is directed by Micaela Miranda, her partner at MADCAP Theatre Company.

Their next project is ‘Seanscealta Gra’ in February. The lighting for this play was by Colum Maher, who works as the technical manager for Bewley’s Cafe Theatre.
Bewley’s Theatre, Grafton Street continues its lunchtime shorts with ‘The Art of Swimming’, another one-woman monologue ‘about long-distance swimming, celebrity, storytelling and time’, written and performed by Lynda Radley.

It runs from Monday 18th February to Saturday 1st March (doors open at 12.50pm and the performance starts at 1.10pm).

Phone 086-8784001 or info@bewleyscafetheatre.com