Aaron McIlroy plays James, a red-blooded meat-eating South African man. He is aware of the insistent concerns about the meat industry’s role in the impending climate catastrophe. He has done his best to ignore such concerns until a work trip creates an unexpected double whammy and he is shaken out of his comfort zone. The former ‘King of the Braai’ becomes a vegetarian, and his new lifestyle does not fit well into his meat-eating family.
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Starring Aaron Mcilroy
Written and Directed by Craig Freimond
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Aaron Mcilroy
Aaron McIlroy is one of South Africa’s most popular entertainers, with a string of stage blockbusters under his belt in both the public and corporate entertainment circuits. These include,
his popular satires, The Loser, Mr Personality, The Ranga, The Stand-Up, DOF, The Golfer and The Happy Clapper. Aaron also stars as the lunatic father, Mr Milton in the Spud movie franchise As Macbob Productions, Aaron often teams up with his wife and professional partner, actress Lisa Bobbert with hit musical comedies Marriage for Dummies, Family Therapy, Go Big and Abbamaniacs; their hugely popular tribute to the Swedish super group, Abba.
Aaron is notorious for getting audiences’ abs aching and tears of mirth rolling. Director Susan Monteregge credits him for “single-handedly transforming theatre into an extreme sport.”
“I grew up close to the entertainment industry” says Aaron,”my father was a member of the popular Irish band, the Blarney Brothers. I love music but I really wanted to be a serious actor. I even studied drama at university but every time I performed something vaguely dramatic my lecturers would fall off their chairs. After much humiliation I decided to embrace my funny bone and make some cash!” That is the pedigree of perennial funny man Aaron McIlroy and it might also explain why he has the gift of the gab.
