THE LOVE-HUNGRY FARMER

Written by John B. Keane Adapted and performed by Des Keogh From Letters of a Love-Hungry Farmer by John B Keane Des Keogh, one of Ireland’s foremost actors and entertainers, returns with his hugely successful award-winning show The Love Hungry Farmer by John B. Keane. It tells the story of John Bosco McLane, a...

MIXING UP THE MAGIC

Superstars Stage School together with Annette Dilworth Enright Speech & Drama Academy have titled their annual production ‘Mixing Up The Magic’. In this amazing show you will see the students showcase their talents through dance, muscial theatre and drama. The theme is Magic Of the Musicals with a twist and...

THE TAILOR AND ANSTY

By Eric Cross Adapted by PJ O Connor When published in 1942, The Tailor and Ansty was banned by the Censorship Board after 3 days of heated debate in The Seanad. The innocent couple was denounced from the altar in their local church, their cottage boycotted by neighbours and three priests came to their cottage in Gougane Barra...

PAGLIACCI

Presented by the Everyman and Cork Operatic Society in association with Cork MidSummer Festival, Barabbas and Cork Circus Comprising a multidisciplinary company of calibre artists drawn from the professional and local community sectors, Pagliacci at the Everyman will be a unique and exciting staging of Leoncavallo’s classic commedia opera. Featuring outstanding singers, musicians, clowns and circus acts along with a full choir and orchestra, this boldly ambitious production takes place in a contemporary Cork funfair in which a fantastical travelling troupe of clowns and musical performers materialise to enact their play-within-a-play drama. This production will turn the Everyman – street entrance, foyer, hallway and auditorium...

THE GIRL WHO FORGOT TO SING BADLY

Sometimes it takes a girl-sized human to solve an adult-sized problem. Peggy O’Hegarty and her parents are packers. They squeeze fruit into tins, foxes into boxes, even bikes into brown paper bags. And all the while Peggy sings with the voice of an angel – a grossly unfortunate angel, who can’t sing at...

LOVE ALL

A comedy about love, murder and… tennis! From the Wimbledon finals to the hangman’s noose, this is the true and terrible tale of Irish sporting legend Vere St. Ledger Goold and his mercenary wife Marie Violet. A whopping great hangover kept Goold from the Wimbledon prize, while a head in a hat box almost sent...

LIFE IN THE VENUE

One of Cork’s most exciting young theatre companies, Clinic Media, brings a theatrical experience like no other to the Everyman. The first part in a new trilogy, Life in the Venue is a comedy-drama that follows the intricate lives of 3 ushers working in ‘The Venue’. Utilizing the entire Everyman building and...

THE CHA & MIAH FAREWELL SHOW

With Michael Twomey and Frank Duggan For over 30 years Cha and Miah have been synonymous with Cork. And not just within Cork city and county, but around the country also. With their long association with Frank Hall and Hall’s Pictorial Weekly, their political and social satire was a hugely popular fixture on Irish...

GUERILLA DAYS IN IRELAND

Adapted for the stage and directed by Neil Pearson Following its world premiere production last year, the smash hit sell-out show Guerilla Days in Ireland returns to the Everyman. Admired by Che Guevara, feared by the British Army, loved by the people he led. Tom Barry, legendary Commander of the West Cork Flying Column,...

WOMAN AND SCARECROW

Woman and Scarecrow is a dreamy if sometimes bitter play about death, and the perspective that it can throw upon the life which it is bringing to a close. On her deathbed a woman with eight children and a remorseful cheating husband surveys her life and imagines what else could have been. Full of bitter humour and brutal...

DRUIDMURPHY – PLAYS BY TOM MURPHY

Directed by Garry Hynes Druid presents DruidMurphy in a co-production with Quinnipiac University Connecticut, NUI Galway, Lincoln Center Festival and Galway Arts Festival. DRUIDMURPHY – Plays by Tom Murphy is the story of Irish emigration; a story both of those who went and those who were left behind. Crossing oceans and spanning decades, DruidMurphy explores what we mean when we call a place home and is a major celebration of one of Ireland’s most respected living dramatists. —————————————————— 11, 13, 17, 19 September, 8pm 15 September, 3pm 21 September, 11am – Special schools performance A WHISTLE IN THE...