Presented by Everyman Palace Productions

Written by Joan Didion
Directed by: Mary Curtin

Cast:
Gerry McLoughlin

Lighting design: Paul Denby
Set and costume design: Lisa Zagone

The Year of Magical Thinking, a beautifully told and ultimately uplifting memoir, is based on the real-life experience of the playwright.

In this adaptation of her award-winning (National Book Award for Non-Fiction 2005), best-selling memoir, Joan Didion transforms a story of sudden and unexpected loss into a stunning one-woman play, which starred one of Cork's favourite actresses, Gerry McLoughlin.

"Meeting this challenge, Gerry McLoughlin imposes a creative authority to make the whole piece her own: unafraid of silence; subtle but significant in gesture; her voice measuring the cadences of her sentences; and confident in her pace around Lisa Zagone’s black furniture and backdrop of galactic clouds. Tracked by Paul Denby’s sympathetic lighting, she also manages the transitions which fill in the life shared by Didion and Dunne in a marriage which was not without its antagonisms. In a single-handed play of this kind, credibility is all, and McLoughlin is compelling." IRISH TIMES

"Mixing black humour with visceral grief, Gerry McLouglin's interpretation of Joan Didion's meditation on mourning is huely impressive." IRISH EXAMINER

Directed by: Patrick Talbot

Narration: Evelyn Grant
Choreography: Donna Daly Blyth
Musical Director: John O’Brien
Pianist: John O'Brien & Ciara Moroney
Set and costume design: Joe Vanek.

The Everyman Palace Theatre hosted this unique revue-style musical celebration of prolific Broadway and film composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim. It was an enchanting production featuring such classics as “Love Is In The Air”, “The Little Things”, “Getting Married Today”, “Anyone Can Whistle” “Send In The Clowns” and, of course, “Side By Side By Side”,

"As a team this troupe has perfect timing and a crisp sense of comedy. As individual singers, they offer delectable voices with range.."
THE IRISH TIMES

DIRECTED BY POL HEYVAERT

A co-production by Cork Midsummer Festival, CAMPO Ghent, LIFT, Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s and Everyman Palace Theatre. What’s it really like being a teenager today? And how on earth do you become a happy one?  What drives teenagers to profound sadness or extreme violence? Ireland has one of the highest teen suicide rates in Europe. What about the rest of the world? 

Directed by one of Europe’s finest directors, Pol Heyvaert of CAMPO Ghent, FML casts a spotlight on the lives of 15 young Corkonians in this whodunit, or better: who’ll do it.  Who is the funniest, most beautiful, most dangerous?  Who will fall by the wayside?  Who won’t live to see twenty?  Who needs help? 

For all teenagers and everyone who has ever been one…

Parental advisory:  suitable for 16 years plus only.  Contains strong language and sexually explicit material.

Date & Time:

Tue 1 – Sat 5 Mar 8pm

Tickets

€20 Concession €15 Opening Night €15
Special Concession for under 18’s  €11
 

BY JENNY ÉCLAIR & JUDITH HOLDER

STARRING ADÈLE KING, FLO MCSWEENEY AND UNA CRAWFORD O’BRIEN

PRESENTED BY ROBERT C KELLY BY ARRANGEMENT WITH AVALON® PROMOTIONS LTD IN ASSOCIATION WITH LIBERTY BELL

Have you reached that certain age?  Are you more likely to be shaking your rolling pin than your booty?  Are you a little bit hot, a little bit hairy?  Then join us for a live grump fest.

Adèle King, Flo McSweeney and Una Crawford O’Brien all brought the nation mirth and mayhem in Menopause the Musical and will do the same again in the fabulously funny West End smash hit show specially re-written for Ireland. 

Join three women on the edge for an orgy of middle aged mayhem, 90 minutes of theatrical HRT with not a thong in sight.

Date & Time:

Mon 7 – Thu 10 Mar, 8pm
Fri 11 Mar, 8.30pm
Sat 12 Mar, 6pm & 8.30pm

Tickets

Opening Night €20 
Tue 8 & Wed 9 Mar, €25
Thu 10, Fri 11 & Sat 12 Mar, €30 
Sat 12 Mar,
6pm €25
 

*Online and phone bookings subject to a handling fee

PRESENTED BY FAIRBANK PRODUCTIONS & PLAY ON WORDS THEATRE

Tom Crean, the intrepid Antarctic Explorer and one of Ireland’s unsung heroes, is skillfully brought to life in this dramatic and humorous solo performance written and performed by Aidan Dooley. Hear the riveting true stories of Crean’s adventures in this “remarkable and uplifting” show awarded ‘Best Solo Show’ at its
premiere at the 2003 New York International Festival.

Date & Time:

Mon 14 – Sat 19 Mar 8pm

Tickets

€25 | Concession €20 |
Students €7 (opening night only – limited)
 

*Online and phone bookings subject to a handling fee

PRESENTED BY SECOND AGE THEATRE COMPANY

The company that brought you Dancing at Lughnasa, described as “the best show in town” by the Irish Times, is back with a sleek contemporary production of Hamlet.  

Directed by Aoife Spillane-Hinks, with Conor Madden in the title role, this promises to be an arresting and heady take on one of the greatest tragedies of all time. Join us at the Danish Palace of Elsinore, for an evening of intrigue, treachery, and tragedy. The King is dead, the Queen has married the King’s killer, and Prince Hamlet must embark on a journey of revenge.
 

Date & Time:

Mon 21 – Fri 25 Mar, 1pm  
Tue 22, Thu 24 & Fri 25 Mar, 8pm

Tickets

Tickets €25
Concession €20
Groups of 10 or more  €18

*Online and phone bookings subject to a handling fee

BY ALAN AYCKBOURN

PRESENTED BY PROSCENIUM PRODUCTIONS, IN ASSOCIATION WITH EVERYMAN PALACE THEATRE

Alan Ayckbourn is, without doubt, the most prolific living playwright in the world. The author of no less than 75 plays, he has won Olivier, Tony and Moliere awards. His back catalogue of work is constantly being produced. His play Season’s Greetings has just completed a sell out run at the National Theatre in London. The revival of The Norman Conquests, his trilogy of plays, was the theatrical event of the year in both London and New York in 2009.  

Relatively Speaking was Ayckbourn’s first major triumph when it was first produced over forty years ago. Never has the device of mistaken identity, misunderstandings and misapprehensions been used to such hilarious effect as two couples on stage respond to an endless chain of crises and revelations and we are never sure who is in love with whom!

Click here to read an interview with director Trevor Ryan

“tickles the funny bone…fans of farce will enjoy this offering” – Irish Examiner

Director    Trevor Ryan
Designer    Jim Queally
Producer    Michael Murphy

With – Linda Kent, Fionula Linehan, Alf McCarthy and Ian McGuirk

Date & Time:

Wed 30 Mar – Thu 7 Apr, 8pm

Tickets

Tickets €25
Concession €20
Opening Night €15
Students €7  (Wed 30 Mar, Mon 4 – Wed 6 Apr)
 

*Online and phone bookings subject to a handling fee

PRESENTED BY CADA

Musical entertainment for all the family with songs the audience can sing along to, and scenes the audience can laugh at. So We can all go together, because You are the one that we want for our Summer Lovin, Greased Lightning production.
 

Date & Time:

Sat 9 Apr, 7.30pm
Sun 10 Apr, 2.30pm & 7.30pm

Tickets

€20
Family Tickets €70*
*for a family of four, must be purchased at box office
 

*Online and phone bookings subject to a handling fee

PRESENTED BY THE WOLFE STAGE SCHOOL

Avoid those showers this spring and join the students of The Wolfe Stage School for their 6th annual Easter pantomime. The Golden Ticket is packed with songs, dances and plenty of laughs for all the family, offering the very best in Cork talent.

Produced, directed and choreographed by Careen and Declan Wolfe.
Script by Aaron Wolfe.

Date & Time:

Fri 15 Apr, 8pm
Sat 16 & Sun 17 Apr, 2.30pm & 7.30pm

Tickets

€20 | Children €17
 

*Online and phone bookings subject to a handling fee

PRESENTED BY UCC DRAMAT, UCC CHORAL AND UCC CAPRICCIO IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE UCC SOCIETIES’ GUILD

DIRECTED BY MATTHEW WILLIAMS AND STEPHEN ACTON.
MUSICAL DIRECTION BY THOMAS DOYLE.

It is the turn of the twentieth century in New York. An era is exploding. A century is spinning. And the people are moving in rhythm and rhyme to the music of Ragtime.

Presented by UCC Dramat, UCC Choral and UCC Capriccio in association with the UCC Societies’ Guild, Ragtime follows the stories of three very different sections of society all struggling after the American Dream at a time of great political and social change.

Book by Terrence McNally, music by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens. Based on the novel, Ragtime, by E.L. Doctorow.
 

Date & Time:

Wed 20 – Sun 24 April, 8pm (excl Fri 22 Apr)
Mon 25 April, 3pm

Tickets

Tickets €15 Concession €10
Students €7 (Opening night)
 

*Online and phone bookings subject to a handling fee