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?...
GRUMPY OLD WOMEN LIVE
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...
TOM CREAN ANTARCTIC EXPLORER
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...
HAMLET
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...
RELATIVELY SPEAKING
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...
GREASE LIGHTNING
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...
THE GOLDEN TICKET
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...
RAGTIME – The Musical
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...
EDWARD FOX IN TROLLOPE
PRESENTED BY EVERYMAN PALACE THEATRE One of the most recognisable actors in British and Hollywood cinema makes his first Irish stage appearance with a show inspired by the life and work of the novelist Anthony Trollope. Edward Fox is one of the most popular screen actors of recent decades. He has won two BAFTA Awards, one...
BRENDAN SHINE AND HIS BAND
After an absence of ten years the Everyman Palace Theatre welcomes back to Cork one of Ireland’s greatest balladeers; Brendan Shine, with his band. One of our more enduring talents as both vocalist and accordionist Brendan will take a trip through some of his greatest hits including Do You Want Your Old Lobby Washed...
NOCTÚ
Choreographed and directed by Riverdance Principal Dancer Breandán de Gallaí, NOCTÚ is a totally new departure for the Irish dance show genre. NOCTÚ strives to tell the story of Irish dance from the viewpoint of the dancer using movement, narrative, parody, comedy and pathos. The making of NOCTÚ will be the subject of a 6 part television series “Dance Off” which is due to be aired on RTE in the summer. Date & Time: Sun 1 May, 8pm Tickets €25 | Concession €20 | Students €7 (limited) *Online and phone bookings subject to a handling...
MOMENT
Fresh from success at the Bush Theatre in London, Moment is a thrilling new play by one of Ireland’s most celebrated new playwrights. On a seemingly ordinary evening, an Irish family sits down to tea. The difference tonight is that Nial is home -- back from prison having committed a dark crime many years earlier with some...
THE BIG FELLAH
PRESENTED BY OUT OF JOINT AND THE LYRIC HAMMERSMITH BY RICHARD BEAN | DIRECTED BY MAX STAFFORD-CLARK Critics’ Choice “Hilariously funny… A play that turns on a sixpence between laughter and terror” - Sunday Times New York 1972. Michael Doyle, a young fireman, joins the IRA. Soon his Bronx apartment is...
