After starting off small with an online presence, she’s successfully made the transition to standup and her wry observational comedy has been a huge hit.
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She’s now at the point where she’s been touring in Australia with her own stand up show Acting the Divil which has gone down a storm at home and abroad.
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Now she’s trying her hand at comedy acting in a play while double jobbing as a stand up all at the Galway Comedy Festival which runs from October 20 to 26 at various venues across the City of Tribes.
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The Kavanaghs: Married With Parents is the creation of Al Porter and stars Enya, Al Porter, Fair City stars Aisling O’Neill and Ryan Andrews, Phelim Drew and Willa White and was written by Porter and fellow comedian Karl Spain.
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The show will have a three night run in Galway, one of which is already sold out.
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'I remember Al actually reaching out to me probably at the start of last year when the play was just a concept and there was nothing written at that stage but he told me he had a character that he’d love me to play
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,’ Enya says.
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‘I thought nothing of it — you know the way people sometimes just run things by you?
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But true to his word, he wrote the script and came back to me to ask me to play the part.
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‘I had never actually done a play before other than in school so rehearsing for it was intense.
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But we managed to do three nights in the Civic Theatre in Tallaght where it went down a treat.
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This was the first run out for The Kavanaghs: Married With Parents and now it’s coming to the Town Hall Theatre as part of the Galway Comedy Festival from October 23-25 where one of the three nights is already sold out as word spreads.
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‘We rehearsed for nearly three weeks with four shows in the Civic theatre, so three nights, and a matinee show,’ Enya says.
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‘We got a good run at it and we will probably rehearse a bit in between now and Galway as well.
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‘But the finished product went down really well with the audience.
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There are loads of laughs and it’s very relatable because it’s very family orientated.
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I wouldn’t be bringing young kids to it, but it’s definitely something if you are living at home as a grown adult, you can relate to - people getting on top of each other and stuff like that.’
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Enya knows about this as she’s currently living in her mam’s in Tallaght although her comedy success means she’s just bought her own place.
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‘I did get mortgage approved and I’ve bought a house, so hopefully I’ll be in that by the end of the year.
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‘But I’m living in my mother’s box bedroom in a single bed, you can imagine how much it’s starting to grate on me at this stage, so I’m delighted to have my own space now.
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‘I’m buying by myself, so I’m actually doing it the hard way,’ she says.
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Enya knows about this as she’s currently living in her mam’s in Tallaght although her comedy success means she’s just bought her own place
‘I’ve saved since the start of the year and I used all the schemes and stuff like that which were a massive help.
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Without those I probably wouldn’t be able to buy by myself - in this country houses are so expensive.’
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The brand new comedy takes on one of the great realities of modern Irish family life: Generation Stuck – grown adults who thought moving back in with their parents would only be for a few months until life got in the way.
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The show, which is heading to the 3Olympia next year and is billed as ‘They’re living in despair (room) .’
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The plot for the Kavanaghs centres round Al and Ryan who only moved back in with his parents for six months.
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Now, with Al’s parents preparing to fly to Germany, the happy couple are finally about to have the house to themselves... or so they think.
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As suitcases pile up, secrets unravel and unexpected guests keep arriving
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, one ordinary weekend in Tallaght spirals into glorious chaos.
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At its heart, The Kavanaghs is a comedy about a very modern Irish predicament: adult children living at home, parents wondering if they’ll ever get the house back, and families discovering that sometimes growing up doesn’t necessarily mean moving out.
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Enya plays Sarah Ward who she says is a bit like her old Shando character from her Giz A Laugh videos.
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‘Sarah is heading off to Magaluf with her pals.
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Al is trying to get his mom and dad out of the house for the weekend.
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They’re going over to meet his partner’s parents in Germany.
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And Sarah is bumming a lift to the airport because their Germany flight and her Magaluf flight are leaving the same day, so I’m lingering in the house the whole day and just seeing everything unfold and so many obstacles getting in the way of them leaving.
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‘My character is the comic relief — Sarah is a proper dizzy blonde airhead, with four kids by four different dads but she loves her life and sees no problem with it.’
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As well as this Enya will be doing stand up slots on the bill with other comedians with pieces taken from her Acting the Divil show.
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The Kavanaghs: Married With Parents is the creation of Al Porter and stars Enya, Al Porter, Fair City stars Aisling O’Neill and Ryan Andrews, Phelim Drew and Willa White and was written by Porter and fellow comedian Karl Spain
‘It’s just a lot about how, you know, life has changed, I suppose, since my career has grown, my profile has grown,’ she says.
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‘I’ve been touring Australia and the last two years I’ve got to go over in the summertime, which has been great.
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‘And I’ve finally been making enough income to treat myself to fly business class and things like that.
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