Cork Arts Theatre

Girls Sing
2019-07-17 - 2019-07-20
Wednesday 17th to Saturday 20th July
LUNCH: Wednesday to Friday – 12.15pm
SUPPER: Friday and Saturday – 7.30pm
‘Girls Sing’ is a celebration of all the biggest heroines of Musical Theatre.
Presented by the brightest and best of young talented performers, stars who are on the rise here in Cork and beyond.
From the unforgettable I Caint Say No from Oklahoma through Sister Suffragette from Mary Poppins via songs from Wicked, Sister Act, Little Women and some very contemporary current West End and Broadway hits and, on the way, paying tribute to some of our favourite Musical Theatre performers.
There will be solos, duets, trios and full company numbers throughout the show, all presented in a cabaret style and designed to send you home with a smile on your face, music in your ears and a song in your heart.
TICKETS:
LUNCH: €12.50 (includes light lunch and show). Lunch is served from 12.15pm. Show starts at 1pm.
SUPPER: €22.50 each or 2 tickets for €40. Ticket price includes supper, glass of wine / soft drink,
dessert and the show. Supper is served from 7.30pm followed by show at 9pm.
Show only (without meal) €10 per person.
Note for Online Bookings: Once your booking is complete, please either print your tickets at home and bring them with you, or present them on your phone at the box office on arrival and they will print them for you.
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Golden Songs of the Silver Screen
2019-07-10 - 2019-07-13
Wednesday 10th to Saturday 13th July
LUNCH: Wednesday to Friday – 12.15pm
SUPPER: Friday and Saturday – 7.30pm
Performed by Amanda Neri

Due to the success of last year’s Summer Theatre Show “Golden Songs of the Silver Screen” returns by popular demand.
“Golden Songs of the Silver Screen” transports the audience back to some magical moments in cinematic history. A salute in story and song that takes a glimpse into some of the music from iconic movies like, “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, “The Sound of Music”, “Top Hat” to include such favourites as “When you wish upon a star”, “Moon River”, “I could have danced all night” and many more.
Once again scripted and directed by Amanda Neri who welcomes you to laugh, reminisce, sing-along and toe-tap at this behind the scenes look into “Golden Songs of the Silver Screen”.
“These live theatre moments are to be treasured.” – Liam Murphy, Munster Entertainment Review
“A great wonderful voice” – President Michael D. Higgins
“A little bit of heaven” Amanda has the ‘voice of an angel” – Former President Mary McAleese
“A most beautiful voice, wonderful.” – Michael Flatley
“You’d go far to find a singer of the calibre of Amanda.” – Gerald Kean
“I couldn’t believe what a magnificent voice Amanda has, the whole room was absolutely lifted by her majestic voice and you couldn’t get a better Cultural Ambassador for Ireland” – Miriam O Callaghan.
TICKETS:
LUNCH: €12.50 (includes light lunch and show). Lunch is served from 12.15pm. Show starts at 1pm.
SUPPER: €22.50 each or 2 tickets for €40. Ticket price includes supper, glass of wine / soft drink,
dessert and the show. Supper is served from 7.30pm followed by show at 9pm.
Show only (without meal) €10 per person.
Note for Online Bookings: Once your booking is complete, please either print your tickets at home and bring them with you, or present them on your phone at the box office on arrival and they will print them for you.
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The Hairdresser's Calendar
2019-07-03 - 2019-07-06
Wednesday 3rd to Saturday 6th July
LUNCH: Wednesday to Friday – 12.15pm
SUPPER: Friday and Saturday – 7.30pm
Written by Ger Fitzgibbon. Starring Fionula Linehan.
A Theatre Makers’ Ltd. production, Directed by Jack Healy.

Whether it’s a wedding, a christening, or a debs’ ball, everyone comes expecting transformation. “The straight-haired ones want curls, the curly-headed ones want it straight. They want it crimped, styled, chopped, coloured or streaked, but of course they want it to look ‘natural’.”
And that is what she gives them. She is therapist, counsellor, story-teller and magician all rolled into one. Unfortunately, that doesn’t always leave her the time or the energy to deal with the crises in her own life. In the course of an hour we encounter the Hairdresser, her life, her customers and her colleagues: her lovely assistant, Kylie, who creates chaos wherever she goes; Miss Cadogan who had a thing for umbrellas; the dapper old gent with the gamey eye; the sister-in-law visiting from foreign parts and the retired husband who cheats at Countdown.
Make a date to see your hairdresser: Fionula Linehan in The Hairdresser’s Calendar.
TICKETS:
LUNCH: €12.50 (includes light lunch and show). Lunch is served from 12.15pm. Show starts at 1pm.
SUPPER: €22.50 each or 2 tickets for €40. Ticket price includes supper, glass of wine / soft drink,
dessert and the show. Supper is served from 7.30pm followed by show at 9pm.
Show only (without meal) €10 per person.
Note for Online Bookings: Once your booking is complete, please either print your tickets at home and bring them with you, or present them on your phone at the box office on arrival and they will print them for you.
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The Regina Monologues
2019-06-26 - 2019-06-29
Wednesday 26th to Saturday 29th June
LUNCH: Wednesday to Friday – 12.15pm
SUPPER: Friday and Saturday – 7.30pm
“Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived…”
Admired, vilified, de-humanised. Three Catherines, two Annes and a Jane. Six women with one thing in common – marriage to a man called Henry – have passed into historical legend. Of course, it couldn’t happen these days…
Six modern women have also married one man. Their lives are both separate and intertwined as they tell their stories from a room in which they have all once lived. Their experiences – miscarriage, love affairs, betrayal, and a shared loathing of all things ginger – are portrayed with humour, pathos and a great deal of wine.
The plight of those sixteenth century women is personal, poignant and still relevant five hundred years on.
Directed by Mary Curtin, starring some of Cork’s best loved actresses, the cast includes: Jean Law, Vanessa Hyde, Lorraine Comiskey, Lucy O’Connell, Jenny Fennessy and Allison O’Flynn. The first in our, not to be missed, Summer season.
TICKETS:
LUNCH: €12.50 (includes light lunch and show). Lunch is served from 12.15pm. Show starts at 1pm.
SUPPER: €22.50 each or 2 tickets for €40. Ticket price includes supper, glass of wine / soft drink,
dessert and the show. Supper is served from 7.30pm followed by show at 9pm.
Show only (without meal) €10 per person.
Note for Online Bookings: Once your booking is complete, please either print your tickets at home and bring them with you, or present them on your phone at the box office on arrival and they will print them for you.
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Iphigenia in Splott
2019-06-19 - 2019-06-23
by Gary Owen
Presented by Conflicted Theatre and supported by Cork Midsummer Festival
Performed by Sonya O’ Donoghue and directed by Gavin McEntee

June 19th – 23rd 2019 @ 5.45pm
Effie is setting her future ablaze with a Molotov cocktail of youth, beauty, vodka, ketamine and rage! Each day she deploys a deadly combo of brutal and delicate cunning to get what she needs and what she really needs is to ‘top up’ from the night before and the night before that. She bounds from hungover to absolutely hammered again and again with the true determination and dedication that can only be admired.
BTW, Effie is going to save us all.
Our sacrificial deer who just couldn’t give a fuck.
Iphigenia in Splott tells the story of a young woman who has no use for hopes or dreams… unless they belong to us.
Conflicted Theatre use Gary Owen’s lauded script to transpose their bold storytelling into an honest-to-goodness theatre for the first time in quite a while.
This powerful one-woman show screams of decaying urban atmospheres and provides Conflicted with the perfect launchpad for a show that will be loud and brash and violent and tender.
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CONFLICTED THEATRE
Conflicted Theatre have been devising, adapting, writing and stealing work since 2010. The core of the company is Gavin McEntee & Evan Lordan, but we work with an unofficial ensemble of collaborators time and time again, who helped us to create a kaleidoscopic and eclectic body of work.
Have a look – www.conflictedtheatre.com
It’s tough to nail down exactly what we do, because we are yet to try the same thing twice. We wrote After Jekyll (2010); used a former government building to construct an immersive promenade story with 18-35 (2012); adapted The Scarlet Letter (2013) and performed it at City Hall; We Make Gods (2014) was an entirely devised modern myth; we created a private dining experience, stealing another writer’s words with Come Dine with Charles Mee (2015); and in Neon Western (2017), we sneaked our audience into an epic cinematic warehouse rave.
Do try and keep up – www.facebook.com/conflictedtheatre/
With Iphigenia in Splott we are challenging ourselves with something entirely different; we’re going to tackle a beautifully constructed script. Don’t presume that this means we have settled down into a life of cozy traditional theatre… anything but.
This production is made possible by the Cork Arts Theatre and the Arts Council Emerging Artists Programme.
“Conflicted have been around the block (literally), making work throughout Cork City over the past 9 years and when we decided that our next new challenge was to produce an electric, one-woman show we couldn’t imagine a more behoving first-time partner for us than the Cork Arts Theatre, a true theatre institution here in Cork. ” – CONFLICTED THEATRE

Tickets: €15, €12 conc.
Administration fee on phone and online bookings.
Note for Online Bookings: Once your booking is complete, please either print your tickets at home and bring them with you, or present them on your phone at the box office on arrival and they will print them for you.
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Everything I Do
2019-06-14 - 2019-06-15
Cork Midsummer Festival
Friday 14th June @ 9.15pm
Saturday 15th June @ 4pm

Duration: 55 mins.

“I want to help, I want to help you, everything I do is for you, everything I do is for you.”
Accompanied by her guitar, a hysterical pop singer riffs on love in a lonely universe. She’s attempting heartfelt communication with a room full of strangers. It’s a solo exploration of co-dependency. A live action album of original pop songs, powered by a need to express the inexpressible.
With a sold-out premiere run during Dublin Fringe Festival for which she received the Best Performer Award, Everything I Do sees Zoe Ní Riordáin take on the universality of love, pain and hope in an intimate and soulful performance based on personal material.
One Two One Two are Project artists in residence. The show was developed with support from Project Arts Centre, Mermaid Arts Centre, Pan Pan Theatre, Make Artist Residency, La MaMa International Residency Programme and Dublin City Council.
Tickets: €15, €12 conc.
Administration fee on phone and online bookings.
Note for Online Bookings: Once your booking is complete, please either print your tickets at home and bring them with you, or present them on your phone at the box office on arrival and they will print them for you.

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Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of The Moon'
2019-06-07 20:00 - 2019-06-08 20:00 (Europe/Dublin)
A spectacular, solo, live concert tribute by multi-instrumentalist Girish Paul

Produced by Carmel Barrett & Girish Paul
Experience not one, but two classic albums by the legendary Pink Floyd, WISH YOU WERE HERE and the classic DARK SIDE OF THE MOON performed live in concert and in their entirety, with live instruments and vocals, studio quality recordings and sound effects, and stunning on-screen visuals throughout.
Sit back and let the music transport you from the depths of the oceans to the reaches of outer space.
Singer-Songwriter Girish Paul’s albums are cut at the world famous Abbey Road Studios where Pink Floyd recorded one of the greatest albums of all time, Dark Side of the Moon.
As a singer-songwriter Girish has worked with the likes of John David (Robert Plant, Status Quo), Nick Webb (Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, Phil Collins) and his new album JourneyMan released worldwide was mastered by Pete Maher who has worked with Irish band U2 and The Rolling Stones.
‘An amazing experience. Girish’s electric performance left the entire audience wanting more – and Girish duly obliged with a stunning encore that included tracks from Animals and The Wall. Magic.’ Palace Theatre, Fermoy
Please Note: The concert features flashing images.
Tickets: €20
Administration fee on phone and online bookings.
Note for Online Bookings: Once your booking is complete, please either print your tickets at home and bring them with you, or present them on your phone at the box office on arrival and they will print them for you.
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FUNSIZE
2019-05-27 19:30 - 21:30
The ACA Performing Arts and Suzanne Jones Drama Studio
A selection of short scenes. Comedy, Tragedy and all that lies between.

Directed by Suzanne Jones.
Tickets: €10
Administration fee on phone and online bookings.
Note for Online Bookings: Once your booking is complete, please either print your tickets at home and bring them with you, or present them on your phone at the box office on arrival and they will print them for you.
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The Cave of Wonders
2019-05-25 - 2019-05-31
Saturday 25th May @ 12pm, 2.30pm and 5pm
Sunday 26th May @ 2.30pm and 5pm
Tuesday 28th to Friday 31st May @ 6.30pm

Dramarama Academy of Performing Arts, present their annual show, and as always, we like to do things a little different.
Their panto is for your entertainment, lots of good natured jokes, dancing and singing, leaving the audience uplifted and inspired.
Dramarama are proud to have the opportunity to let their students shine on stage. WE hope you enjoy it as much as we did rehearsing for it!
Tickets: €15 adult, €10 child
Administration fee on phone and online bookings.
Note for Online Bookings: Once your booking is complete, please either print your tickets at home and bring them with you, or present them on your phone at the box office on arrival and they will print them for you.
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Howie the Rookie
2019-05-24 20:00
Stagemad Theatre Company presents

‘Howie the Rookie’ by Mark O’Rowe
Following a hugely successful run at the National Opera House, Wexford earlier this month to standing ovations and rave reviews, Stagemad Theatre Company presents ‘Howie The Rookie’ by Mark O’Rowe.
This highly charged production will have it all – at times funny and light-hearted, at other times surreal and sombre.
The play features Fintan Kelly. who will be be seen in Season 8 of “Game Of Thrones” and “Krypton”, a new series starting soon on CBS.
Directed by the acclaimed James Power.
The play follows the story of Howie Lee as gets dragged into a bizarre feud of honour involving a scabies-infested mattress against the Rookie Lee, which spirals out of control and ends in his own personal tragedy. The Rookie has problems of his own; massively in debt to a terrifying gangland figure for killing his prized Siamese fighting fish, he steels himself for a hideous revenge, until he is championed from an unlikely quarter by his onetime enemy. Howie The Rookie is a white-knuckle ride through a nightmare Dublin, where enemies and allies are interchangeable, where most brutal events take on mystic significance.This is a play that is not to be missed.
“Fintan Kelly tames, controls and masters the stage as his own. In the hands of a lesser director, Mark O’Rowe’s writing skills would be nought.” – Wexford People
“Mark O’Rowe’s extraordinary play drives you to the depths of humanity’s horror, then stops your stomach churning by demanding that you laugh” – The Irish Times
“It is, quite simply, Greek in its power of catharsis while piling laughter. Euripides would be proud to call Mark O’Rowe a brother in art” – Irish Independent
Tickets: €15
Administration fee on phone and online bookings.
Note for Online Bookings: Once your booking is complete, please either print your tickets at home and bring them with you, or present them on your phone at the box office on arrival and they will print them for you.
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Herstory
2019-05-09 20:00 - 2019-05-18 20:00
by Aoife Byrne
Presented by A.Tack Theatre

May 9th – 18th (excluding Sunday 12th) 2019 @ 8pm
HerStory follows Fianna, a vivacious and creative teenager with no great affinity for the academic side of life.
We join Fianna as she is presented with a history project on an influential Irish woman. The guidelines of the project clearly state, she is not allowed to present on any household names like Countess Markievicz, Mary Robinson or Katie Taylor… no famous personalities or Irish legends. This leads her to think, ‘There’s no one left’.
However, her reluctant research shows her women from Ireland who have influenced the world in ways she never even dreamed. Her vibrant imagination brings these women to life and allows her to talk with them. She discovers doctors, scientists, professors and world famous singers. With the help of these women Fianna begins to see things in a completely different way and learns that, no matter what, she can achieve anything.
A.TACK THEATRE
A.Tack Theatre was founded in March 2015 by Aoife Byrne and Alison McCarthy. A.Tack Theatre strives to create socially-aware theatre inspired by their lives and the lives of those around them. So far they have produced three original pieces: Jacqueline – a play about a couch-surfing student, which won the Galway Fringe First Award 2018; Lockedwithin – which focuses on mental health issues; and Puck and the Lovers: A Dementia Inclusive Play – a piece designed entirely for people with dementia or similar.
HerStory was inspired by the lack of Irish women featured in ‘Bedtime Stories for Rebel Girls’ and Aoife’s subsequent research into what Irish women had to offer in history. The play follows more obscure characters than the obvious – women that have achieved great things both at home and abroad but you wouldn’t usually find in your history books. This is A.Tack’s first venture into theatre for YA audiences.
This production is made possible by the Cork Arts Theatre and the Arts Council Emerging Artists Programme.
“We are delighted to be part of the Emerging Artists Programme. The Cork Arts Theatre have provided a fantastic opportunity for ourselves and the others involved in the project to grow and develop our work and skills. We are delighted to be able to expand this new piece with their great support.” – A.TACK THEATRE

Tickets: €15, €12 conc.
Administration fee on phone and online bookings.
Note for Online Bookings: Once your booking is complete, please either print your tickets at home and bring them with you, or present them on your phone at the box office on arrival and they will print them for you.
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
2019-05-01 20:00 - 2019-05-04 20:00
by William Shakespeare
Presented by Cork Shakespearean Company

Bringing the Bard’s work to the people of Cork since 1924
Shakespeare’s infamous knight-errant, Sir John Falstaff, has come to the township of Windsor in financial difficulties, and comes up with a plan to get himself some money – he will woo the wives of two local merchants, Page and Ford, seduce them both, and get the money he requires, in the hope that neither wives nor husbands find out the truth.
Unfortunately for Falstaff, the wives are much smarter than he suspects – they figure out that the letters sent to them telling of Falstaff’s affection are identically worded, and they decide to teach him a lesson, concocting a devious and hilarious plan to show Falstaff the error of his ways. Meanwhile, Mistress Page’s daughter, Anne, is the object of affection of several would be suitors, who all wish her hand, in spite of the fact that she is in love with a young courtier, Fenton, who seems to have the disapproval of all around him.
It will all lead to a fairy-lit crescendo as Falstaff learns a very valuable lesson – don’t mess with the Merry Wives of Windsor!
Directed by Raymond Brothers
Tickets: €15, €12 conc.
Administration fee on phone and online bookings.
Note for Online Bookings: Once your booking is complete, please either print your tickets at home and bring them with you, or present them on your phone at the box office on arrival and they will print them for you.
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Views from a Harbour
2019-04-23 20:00 - 2019-04-27 20:00
The Cork Arts Theatre ‘Views from…’ short play event has proven to be a very popular annual event with our audiences since its inception in 2015.

Each year we put a call out for short, 10 minute plays for a chosen setting. And each year authors from around the globe have risen to the challenge by submitting some wonderful scripts. Last year’s event saw a record entry of 63 plays entered! However, only a small number of those plays can be staged.
This year the setting is ‘Views from a Harbour’ and, once again, we have a wonderful line-up of plays for you to enjoy.
The plays that were selected for production are:

“Patron Saints” by Jill Brewer. Directed by Dolores Dermody.
“Tides” by Chloe Murphy. Directed by Samantha Kelleher.
“Togetherness” by Jonathan Hughes. Directed by Saoirse Garet.
“We’ll Meet Again” by Aaron Cowming. Directed by Aaron Cowming.
“Quite A Catch” by Mike O’Dowd. Directed by Zoe Conlon.
“Overlooking Tralee Bay” by Noel King, Directed by Cormac O’Connor.
“Fisherwoman” by Dillon Harris. Directed by Mary Conway.
“Nationwide” by Laura Reidy. Directed by Orlaith McManus.

Once again, we are indebted to our talented and dedicated team of actors, directors and crew who put so much work in to create a most enjoyable evening with something for everyone.
Tickets for this event sell out quite quickly so early booking is advised.
Tickets: €13, €10 concessions
Administration fee on phone and online bookings.
Note for Online Bookings: Once your booking is complete, please either print your tickets at home and bring them with you, or present them on your phone at the box office on arrival and they will print them for you.
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The Imagination of Walter Ray
2019-04-18 20:00 - 2019-04-20 20:00
Written and directed by Kelby Guilfoyle

Thursday 18th to Saturday 20th April @ 8pm
The award-winning Kisco Productions returns to original work with this absurdly weird, new show written and directed by Kelby Guilfoyle.
Kisco are delighted to premiere their new show at The Cork Art’s Theatre and invite everyone to step inside the world of Walter’s imagination.
Walter’s neural complex has shifted and his mind is plummeting into utter insanity. Can he be helped? And what will become of him? Featuring an eclectic cast of characters, this wonderfully wacky, original play promises to make audiences laugh and cry in a rollercoaster of emotions.
Tickets: €12, €10 conc.
Administration fee on phone and online bookings.
Note for Online Bookings: Once your booking is complete, please either print your tickets at home and bring them with you, or present them on your phone at the box office on arrival and they will print them for you.
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A Journey with Hope
2019-04-16 20:00
Presented by D&D Productions in association with The Hope Foundation
‘A Musical Celebration – Giving childhoods to children’
All profits will go to The Hope Foundation.
Join us for a glorious evening of songs, interviews and chat to celebrate the work of the Hope Foundation and its many student ambassadors. Learn a little about the work of this hands-on charity and share in the experience of their students and how their trip to Kolkata may have influenced their perspective on life.
A night of insight and understanding charged with positive energy and performances from Sinatra, Broadway and beyond that will lift your spirits.
Tickets: €15, €10 students / concessions
Administration fee on phone and online bookings.
Note for Online Bookings: Once your booking is complete, please either print your tickets at home and bring them with you, or present them on your phone at the box office on arrival and they will print them for you.
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Victor's Dung
2019-04-09 20:00 - 2019-04-13 20:00
The multi-award winning and hilarious comedy play by Seamus O’Rourke
Presented by Blue Hat Productions

Victor’s Dung is set in a farm yard, complete with its very own dung heap, outdoor toilet, and rather poor broadband reception.
It is the comic tale of Victor Maguire, a crude, vulgar, abrupt, and un-pc Cavan farmer. We are taken on a whirlwind journey through Victor’s somewhat sad and unconventional life, meeting up with some rather strange buckos along the way.
Written by Seamus O’Rourke, whose other plays include ‘Dig’, ‘Down’, ‘The Trappe Family’ and ‘Ride On’.
Make sure you get to see this hilarious production.
Directed by Denis O’Sullivan.
Tickets: Opening Night €10, All other performances €15
Administration fee on phone and online bookings.
Note for Online Bookings: Once your booking is complete, please either print your tickets at home and bring them with you, or present them on your phone at the box office on arrival and they will print them for you.
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Cork Burlesque Festival
2019-04-04 19:30 - 2019-04-06 19:30
Join us at the Cork Burlesque Festival for a weekend of fabulous entertainment from local and international performers bringing you the best in burlesque.
We have an exciting line-up of talent for you to enjoy over three nights.
Tickets are available online here or by calling the Cork Arts Theatre Box Office on 021 450 5624

A Weekend Ticket (admission to all 3 nights of the festival) is available for just €45. This can only be booked by calling the Box Office.
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Rebel Cabaret – Thursday 4th April
The opening night of the festival and we are starting off with a bang!
Some of the very best burlesque performers from the around the world will converge in Cork to show the Rebel County what they’ve got!
Hosted by Jonathan Mayor.
Doors: 7pm. Show starts: 7.30pm sharp.
Tickets: €15
Administration fee on phone and online bookings.
Note for Online Bookings: Once your booking is complete, please either print your tickets at home and bring them with you, or present them on your phone at the box office on arrival and they will print them for you.
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Rising Rebel – Friday 5th April
The newest stars on the scene will come together and compete for the title of ‘Rising Rebel’ and win some amazing prizes on the night!
Each artist will have been performing for 2 years or less and will be competing to not only be the very first RISING REBEL but also perform in the Gala Show on Saturday night along with the headliners of the festival!
Hosted by Fifi La Roux.
Doors: 7pm. Show starts: 7.30pm sharp.
Tickets: €15
Administration fee on phone and online bookings.
Note for Online Bookings: Once your booking is complete, please either print your tickets at home and bring them with you, or present them on your phone at the box office on arrival and they will print them for you.

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Gala Show – Saturday 6th April
An extravagant evening of outstanding Irish and International talent, this show is the highlight of the festival with a stage filled with headliner performers.
Some first-rate stars have been hand picked to come to Cork, packing a real treat with the best that Burlesque and Cabaret has to offer!
Dress to impress!
Hosted by Kiki De Ville.
Doors: 7pm. Show starts: 7.30pm sharp.
Tickets: €25
Administration fee on phone and online bookings.
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Red Handed
2019-04-02 20:00
by Wilbert W. Lawrence
Presented by Kinsale College Drama
Red Handed is Wilbert W Lawrence’s savage indictment of ‘Normality’ and ‘things that are beige’.
His fourth, and many think, his best play, Red Handed stretches and breaks theatrical conventions as if they are social conventions, in an attempt to undermine the foundation blocks of corrupt western consciousness: ‘Normality is a state of being which is responsible for all that is wrong with society and the world.’ Or as he said to the press at the premiere of Red Handed at the Royal Court Theatre, ‘Normal people scare me.’ Based on his own early experiences as a Neo-Situationist on the wrong side of London’s police, and a lifelong obsession with his muse, the political activist and granddaughter of Andre Gide, Stella Gide, Red Handed careers across modern London like an out of control tram.
Wilbert W Lawrence was born in Aberdeen in 1988. Originally an actor and poet, he published a volume of poetry: Singing in Darkness, in 2010 before going on to write four critically acclaimed and award winning plays: Cut the Telephone Wires, won the Evening Standard’s Best New Play Award in 2013, and a Tony award for theatre writing with the most innovative investigative practice. Pelted in the Street by my Own Family, was turned into the award winning film Just Go, in 2016. Red Handed has won three festival comedy awards, in Edinburgh, Brighton, and Dublin.
Wilbert W Lawrence is seen by many as the most divisive figure in modern theatre. A provocative exponent of ‘bad-taste theatre’, his work seeks to ‘swim against the tide of orthodoxy-sniffing doom merchants and their issue-based monotony.’ In the acceptance speech of his Tony Award, Lawrence infamously denounced Martin McDonagh’s plays as ‘a poisonous, politically-correct pastiche of JB Keane,’ thereby igniting a long running feud. His denunciation of the Royal Court’s artistic policy, led to a Court Case, in which he was forced to retract the assertion that ‘fascism comes in all sorts of disguises. In The Royal Court it comes in the shape of trying to brainwash us that theatre can only be made by or in support of minority groups.’ His law suits with press and peers led him to try to unsuccessfully eradicate all mention of himself and his work from social media sites.
Criticised by critics for writing a self-referential play in Red Handed, it has been noted by those sympathetic to his work, that in keeping with much of his published verse, the self-portrait is not flattering.
Tickets: €10
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Drama Fever
2019-03-28 - 2019-03-30
presented by The Montfort College of Performing Arts

Thursday 28th March and Friday 29th March @ 7:30pm
Saturday 30th @ 11am, 3pm and 7:30pm

Join us for a show full of poetry, improvisation, solo, duologue and group acting pieces presented by the drama students from the Montfort College of Performing Arts.
Over 400 students from our studios in Fermoy, Ballincollig, Carrigaline, Ballyvolane, Blarney, Crosshaven, Glanmire and our flagship studio at the South Ring Business Park will entertain you with drama pieces of the highest quality.
Tickets: €10
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A Grand Night for Singing
2019-03-25 19:30 - 2019-03-27 19:30
presented by The Montfort College of Performing Arts

Monday 25th to Wednesday 27th March @ 7:30pm
The Montfort College of Performing Arts are proud to present ‘A Grand Night For Singing’. Join us for a glorious evening of songs from Broadway to the West End! The singing students from the Montfort College under the tutelage of Majella Cullagh, Kelley Lonergan, Emma Nash, Emma Power, Keith Greene, Emily Firth & Aonghus Joyce will perform a wide and varied repertoire with songs from Annie, Dear Evan Hansen, The Greatest Showman, Matilda, Mamma Mia and many, many more!
Tickets: €10
Administration fee on phone and online bookings.
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Cork International Poetry Festival
2019-03-19 - 2019-03-23
Produced by the Munster Literature Centre

Ireland’s largest poetry festival, The Cork International Poetry Festival gathers national and international poets for a week of stimulating and inspirational readings, workshops, book launches and presentation of prizes.
For the full programme of events and online booking, please visit the Cork International Poetry Festival website…
www.corkpoetryfest.net/programme.html

Beyond the Curtain 2019
2019-03-12 19:30 - 2019-03-16 19:30
Presented by CADA Performing Arts
STAGE SCHOOL PRODUCTION
When you look up at the sky you see stars. They glitter, shine and have a magical energy that you would want to touch and be around. Well, now you can – our STARS of CADA Performing Arts will give their magical energy to an evening of pure theatre. An experience for all to witness.
Watch the growth, development and confidence of the STARS of the future – some performing for the first time at the big age of 3! Glitter and shine, and feel good with their experience that Beyond the Curtain 2019 will create and leave you with a lasting experience of how pure theatre should be performed.
A different theatre experience each night.
Artistic Director: Catherine Mahon-Buckley
Directors Fionula Linehan, Moyra O’Hare, Ger O’Sullivan and Jennifer Hall will create the magic, the dreams, the belief and beyond this particular curtain.
Tickets: €15
Administration fee on phone and online bookings.
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PRIMAL
2019-03-05 20:00 - 2019-03-09 20:00
by Ciarán Collins
Tuesday 5th – Saturday 9th March 2019 @ 8pm
PRIMAL is a new play by award-winning Cork writer Ciarán Collins, author of bestselling novel ‘The Gamal’, and the theatrical debut of award-winning screen director Shaun O Connor.
Set in the offices of academia, the story begins with a professor, a student, and a simple accusation of plagiarism. But as the narrative unfolds it becomes clear that there’s much more at stake — for both parties.
PRIMAL is a brutally honest examination of male relationships and power hierarchies, exploring the potential for darkness inside everyone – and how easily the veneer of civility can be wiped away when someone is pushed to their limits.
This tense drama, punctuated by distinctly Cork humour, builds to a stunning conclusion that will leave audiences discussing it long after the performance has ended.
Starring Jack Walsh (The Tudors, Killinaskully, Fair City) and Tommy Harris (The Young Offenders, Wet Paint, Rebellion).
CIARÁN COLLINS
Ciarán Collins is an award-winning writer based in Kinsale, Co. Cork. His debut novel ‘The Gamal’ was published by Bloomsbury and won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and Le Prix Des Lecteurs Escapades, France. It received rave reviews around the world, including from The Irish Times, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald, Herald Scotland and many more. Ciarán is currently working on his second novel and debut feature screenplay.
For more information see ciarancollinsauthor.com.
SHAUN O CONNOR
Shaun O Connor is an award-winning film and television director. In addition to directing various work for RTE, Shaun’s film work has screened all over the world and won awards at festivals including DC Shorts, the Cork Film Festival and Irish Music Television Awards. His latest short film ‘Mary’, starring Mark O’ Halloran and funded by the Irish Film Board, premiered at the 2018 Galway Film Fleadh. Shaun is also a prolific writer and photographer and is currently developing various projects, including his debut feature film.
For more information see shaunoconnor.com.
‘Primal’ is Ciarán and Shaun’s first creative collaboration. It’s also individually their first theatrical project and they look forward to developing more work for the stage and in particular with the Cork Arts Theatre.
This production is made possible by the Cork Arts Theatre and the Arts Council Emerging Artists Programme.
“The Cork Arts Theatre’s Emerging Artists Programme was the perfect opportunity to develop our first theatrical project with local financial and creative support. We’re thrilled to have the opportunity to bring ‘Primal’ to the Cork Arts Theatre stage and gaining the experience to develop future theatrical projects. We’re also looking forward to developing an ongoing creative relationship with the Cork Arts Theatre.” – ‘PRIMAL’ CREATIVE TEAM

Tickets: €15, €12 conc.
Administration fee on phone and online bookings.
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Broadway Kidz
2019-02-25 - 2019-02-27
Presented by Montfort College of Performing Arts

STAGE SCHOOL PRODUCTION
The Montfort College of Performing Arts is proud to present ‘Broadway Kidz’ – a musical revue celebrating its 56th year of showcasing the best of Cork talent between 9 and 18 years of age. The students of the Montfort Youth Choir will shine on stage with a medley of classic hits from the best of Broadway and the West End. To get the show truly hopping there will be unforgettable classics with tunes from The Greatest Showman, Moana, Blood Brothers, A Star Is Born and much, much more.
A foot-tapping, sing-along extravaganza for all the family is guaranteed.
Tickets: €10
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A Thousand Moments of Extraordinary Pleasure
2019-02-04 20:00 - 2019-02-16 20:00
A new play by Brendan Griffin
presented by Bamm Productions
Monday 4th – Saturday 16th February 2019 (excluding Sunday 10th) @ 8pm
When Teddy reads Andrew’s online personal ad he decides to take a giant leap outside of his comfort zone. Andrew delights in dressing in women’s clothes. The two men explore together the uncharted territory of a fantasy world. Their journey is sensual, but the risks keep escalating.
Please note play contains mature themes and would not be suitable for audience members under 18.
Starring Mark D’Aughton and Malcolm Adams
Directed by Tom Kibbe
Further details on the production, the cast and creative team can be found at: www.athousandmoments.info
This production is made possible by the Cork Arts Theatre and the Arts Council Emerging Artists Programme.
“Our successful application for the Emerging Artists Programme has given us the opportunity to produce this play. The Arts Council funding has allowed us focus our resources on the production. Likewise, the support from the Cork Arts Theatre in terms of technical, marketing, and front of house support is invaluable. We are very appreciative of the assistance and encouragement of the Cork Arts Theatre.” – BAMM PRODUCTIONS

Tickets: €15/ €12 concession
Monday 4th February Preview Night: All tickets €12

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David Bowie - Golden Years
2019-01-31 20:30
January marks the third anniversary of David Bowie’s passing. To celebrate his legacy Golden Years bring you an intimate night of captivating visuals, dazzling fashion and, of course, the finest selection of anthems from a legendary repertoire.

Since its inception five years ago, the Golden Years show has payed tribute to the life and music of the great David Bowie in theatres and live venues throughout the country.
From their debut in Cork’s Half Moon Theatre in 2014 to headlining David Bowie Week in Limerick last year, this group of accomplished performers continually bring the starman’s sound and vision to audiences through a diverse, career-spanning tribute of material from the days of Ziggy and the Thin White Duke to his collaborations with Queen and even Nine Inch Nails.
Time: 8.30pm sharp! (Doors 8pm)

Tickets: €10
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Here's A Penny
2018-12-12 20:00 - 2018-12-19 20:00
by Orla Daly and Marion Wyatt
from an idea by Caitríona Twomey and Malcolm Urquhart

Presented by Cork Penny Dinners

Here’s a Penny is a dramatisation of chats held with those who struggle.
Here’s a Penny is inspired by the Malcolm Urquhart song Penny for Your Thoughts.
Here’s a Penny will help spread the message: “you are not alone.”
Please note: This show is not suitable for children. Suggested age: 15+

Starring: Dominic Moore, Jessica Leen, Darragh Shannon, Tess Healy Maguire, Úna Ryan, Joey Neville, Shane Doonan, Michael Morris and Tamasin McCarthy Morrogh.
Set & Costume: Lovisa Cosgrave
Lighting: Jamie Feehily
Original Score & Sound: Orla Daly
Director: Marion Wyatt
Producer: Caitriona Twomey
Tickets:
– Pay What You Want for Opening Night only – Wednesday 12th December.
– All other nights €20 / €15 concessions / €10 for groups of 10 or more.
– Gala Performance – Wednesday 19th December: €25 (includes pre and post show reception).
Administration fee on phone and online bookings.

’nuff said. Let’s do.
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A Night at the Musicals
2018-11-27 20:00 - 22:00
An Intimate Night of Musical Theatre with Thomas Cameron

Thomas Cameron is a nineteen year old English tenor, whose voice has been described as having velvet-like qualities.
He first discovered his love for singing when he was selected for the lead role in a production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat when he was eleven years old.
Thomas began vocal tuition from an early age, but it wasn’t until he met his current vocal coach Val Skull, that he realised his potential in classical singing and from here began his classical training. Thomas has worked with a number of people on his latest works, including Irish music producer Robert Macleod (‘Tomorrow’ Universal ‘Candle for Kosovo’ Grapevine Records, Bwitched) and sound engineer Scott Barnett (Peter Gabriel, Beyoncé), recording at the world famous Real World Studios, owned by Peter Gabriel. He has also worked with the likes of Alex Gordon at the most famous studio in the world, Abbey Road Studios, when mastering his debut album.
After recording his first album, Thomas successfully secured an eight date summer tour across the United Kingdom and Ireland at an array of different festivals. One of the highlights of this summer tour, included two appearances at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where he performed at the Arthur Conan Doyle Centre and Stockbridge Church, two of the finest venues in Edinburgh. Another highlight was selling out two shows on the Isle of Wight for the Ventnor Fringe Festival.
Thomas was nominated for a Classical Brit Award at the 2018 ceremony held at The Royal Albert Hall.
On 12th July 2018, the first single ‘Bring Him Home’ from Thomas Cameron’s debut album ‘The Voice of Thomas Cameron’ was launched at Buckland House to a sold out audience. Thomas subsequently made his debut television appearance on BBC One, being interviewed on BBC Spotlight about his career to date and his album.
Thomas has worked with a number of composers across the globe, working closely with them to help bring their compositions to life. His second single, ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’, an original song written in collaboration with Irish singer/songwriter Pat Fagan, will be released this November.
He will perform at the Cork Arts Theatre alongside up and coming composer Damien Bamforth, at new venue ‘The Forge’ in Limerick and finally, in 2019, one of Thomas’ largest successes to date, a performance in the world renowned National Concert Hall of Ireland, principal national venue for classical music concerts in Ireland.
VIDEO: Thomas being interviewed on BBC TV and singing an excerpt from his single, ‘Bring Him Home’ (from Les Miserables).
DAMIAN BAMFORTH – Composer

Damian is an up and coming, classical composer from the UK.
Damian has a rare gift in that he hears entire pieces in his head and while he cannot score or write music to the level of his compositions, with the aid of a computer he has been able to bring his scores to life. He is currently recording his debut album in Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios with the aid of esteemed Juiliard Piano Graduate, Orla McDonagh.
Damian already has an impressive list of recitals lined up including the Cork Arts Theatre where his music will be performed by esteemed concert pianist Michael McHale and he also has a concert hall appearance scheduled for next year.
Tickets: €15
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Tales from the Queerside
2018-11-21 20:00 - 2018-11-24 20:00
LINC Drama

LINC Drama are back after their sold-out run of ‘The L-Word’. Queerer, Darker, Grittier, Sexier than ever!
Strap yourselves in or on for a wild ride!!
Tickets: Opening Night €10, All Other Nights: €12.50

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Recovery
2018-11-14 20:00 - 21:00
Presented by One Two One Two and Hugh Farrell

Arriving to the Cork Arts Theatre on a national tour, Peter Coonan (Love/Hate) and Maud Lee (Maud in Cahoots) star in this live staging of a concept album combining twelve original pop-styled songs with contemporary choreography to paint a moving portrait of a fractured modern family dealing with life after a crisis.
Winner of the performance award for experimental theatre created in memory of the director, producer and scriptwriter Romily Walton-Masters, RECOVERY invites us, in near spiritual fashion, to reflect on our own experience of family and the many forms that recovery takes.
Duration: 1 hour, without interval.
“Insane. Electrifying. Challenging.” —Shane Brothwood for Pure Mzine
Video Trailer: https://vimeo.com/241783954
Written and directed by Zoe Ní Riordáin, RECOVERY was developed at MAKE Artist Residency, an initiative of Cork Midsummer Festival, Dublin Fringe, Project Arts Centre and Theatre Forum.
Supported by the Arts Council Touring Award.

Tickets: €14, €12 concessions

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