Daylight Atheist by Tom Scott

A funny, fierce and profoundly moving play, performed by James Davis, and written by Tom Scott about his father. Irishman Danny Moffat, tells stories of his life. Tickets on sale at Coromandel Information Centre, $25. This play was curtailed by our first Covid Lockdown, so we are privileged to have it back! An instant hit when it premiered in 2002, The Daylight Atheist by award-winning satirical cartoonist Tom Scott, it’s  a not-to-be-missed repertoire experience. Ageing Irish raconteur Danny Moffat retreats from the harsh light of the world to his bedroom. There, under hoardings of old newspapers and beer bottles, he sorts through a lifetime of memories and regrets, from growing up as a boy in Ireland, to the hopes and disappointments of immigration to New Zealand. Tom Scott’s wonderfully inventive and fiercely funny play is a stirring portrait of his father, a deeply flawed yet charismatic bloke. “Has its audience roaring with laughter ” - The Age, Melbourne