Wednesday 24th to Saturday 27th September @ 7.30pm
plus Matinee – Saturday 27th @ 2.00pm
Warm Regards
Written by Alison Teahan
Directed by Sinéad Crowley
Alison Teahan and Sinéad Crowley are proud to present Warm Regards as part of CATALYST, a collaboration between Cork Arts Theatre and The Everyman.
Two best friends. One charming stranger. A birthday that changes everything.
Madeline and Maeve are modern Irish women who have been entwined since the age of ten.
When Patrick, a charming tradesman from Derry, comes to repair their radiator on the morning of Madeline’s birthday,
both women are faced with a choice.
This play explores female friendship and how romantic relationships forever change our platonic loves. We journey through the consequences of envy and the undercurrent of female competition that can permeate even our purest of relationships. At its core, Warm Regards is a contemporary Irish play about female friendship, desire, ageing and the quietly devastating moments where our lives begin to diverge from the people we love most. This play confronts the undercurrent of female competition that can exist even in the most nurturing of friendships; a topic rarely explored on stage. It asks: how do we navigate envy and comparison in a culture that pits women against each other, whilst romanticising female closeness?
Set in Cork with Cork voices, Warm Regards speaks directly to modern Irish women, tackling themes of beauty standards, aging, sexual agency and the emotional labour of being “the good friend.” The emotional intimacy and real-life dialogue offer a mirror for audiences to see themselves: their friendships, their disappointments, their laughter and their contradictions.
CAST
Cillian Calvert as Patrick
Georgia Maguire as Maeve
Alison Teahan as Madeline
Stage Manager: Aisling McCarthy
Assistant Director: Yasmin Fitzgerald
Running time: 90 min | interval
Age recommendation: 18+
Trigger Warnings: Strong language, Themes of an adult nature, Onstage smoke effects, Strobe lighting.
Tickets: €18, €15
*Booking fees apply.