Eoin Colfer’s Last Night in the US

August 5, 2008

So I went to see Eoin Colfer’s “Fairies, Fiends and Flatulence” this past Saturday and have to say that it was great fun. It is an enormously entertaining one-man show complete with video, slides, stories, and stand-up schtick. The bus loomed outside on 112th Street (and Beth Puffer, the Bank Street Book Store manager, told me that if they hadn’t been able to find a spot there she suggested they park it in front of the nearby Cathedral of St. John the Divine). I was really impressed with Colfer’s command of the audience (mostly kids and parents), making it funny for all ages. For the Q & A Mo Willems and Jon Scieszka ran about the auditorium bringing mikes to the questioners and providing commentary. Great questions from serious fans. The kid questioner behind me had a handmade name tag identifying him as “LEP Official” with the code below. The only one I managed to write down:

Q: How do you plan out the Artemis Fowl books?

A: I go down to Philip Pullman’s house and go through his trash.

If you get a chance to see this show go! And if you can’t, do go to the website as they vlogged the whole tour. The August 1 video includes the standing ovation we were asked to give before the show started; according to Eoin the cameraman was leaving for a date so wouldn’t be there to do it at the end. Fortunately there was a more legit one at the actual end!


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  • 1. End-o’-the-Week Kid&hellip  |  August 11, 2008 at 6:10 am

    [...] Fiends and Flatulence”–week before last, but I had to share this account from Educating Alice. She went the night of his last U.S. show and related two especially funny bits I hadn’t [...]

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  • 2. The Golden Compass | Colf&hellip  |  August 19, 2008 at 10:56 am

    [...] offering in the Artemis Fowl series, he was asked during an audience Q&A, according to blog ‘educating alice’, how he planned out his books. His response was “I go down to Philip Pullman’s house and go [...]

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