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On the main stage is George Bernard Shaw's melodramatic and withering perennial The Devil's Disciple. It's an Irishman's expose of entrenched English hypocrisy, where lofty ideals are supposedly adhered to, and reality is never countenanced.

On the second stage they're performing the Dylan Thomas' festive classic A Child's Christmas in Wales in a double bill with 'Twas The Night Before Christmas.

For tickets call 212-757-3318.

BIG THING : Pat Shortt

FATHER Ted, if you don't already know, was one of the seminal Irish comedy shows of the 1990s. A surreal and genuinely hilarious send up of the Irish holy orders, it scandalized some and delighted many others, and it featured a Marx Brothers level of freewheeling lunacy that has retained all of its freshness and its ability to entertain.

This week, why not visit Friends of Ted online to rekindle the flame and sign up for the annual Father Ted convention to be held on Inis Mor island on the west coast of Galway in February? You can enjoy three days of riotous activities with other Ted-ites, including the Father Jack cocktail evening, a priests and nuns five- a-side tournament, the lovely girls contest and charity auction.

As they say on Father Ted, "Ah go on, go on, go on, you know you want to."

To visit log on to www.friendsofted.org

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