Passion play: Cork theatre fights for its future
The closure of Corcadorca theatre company, in 2022, left a hole that the city’s remaining theatre community is battling to fill
Corcadorca Theatre Company
Pink foam on the street, a beach in City Hall: all Cork’s a stage for spectacular Midsummer Festival
Director promises ‘wonder and joy’ as line-up announced for festival that will run from June 14th to 25th
Corcadorca, a pioneer of Irish theatre, loses its uphill struggle
The two-person Cork theatre company behind Disco Pigs is dead, leaving a ‘devastating hole’. Does this spell trouble?
Cillian Murphy: ‘The less that people know about me the better’
‘I didn’t see myself as a personality. I see myself as an actor. I think those are two distinct jobs’
Corcadorca: Reimagining site-specific theatre for social distance
Drama is fine online, but the deep art thrill needs innovative collective experience spaces
The two best theatre shows on this week
Redemption Falls in An Taibhdhearc in Galway, The Same at Galway Airport
The Small Things: Blood and violence and love, but no chemistry
Review: Pauline McLynn and Peter Gowan work from an extraordinary script by Enda Walsh, but the setting leaves things out in the cold
Cillian Murphy and Eileen Walsh on 'Disco Pigs': 'It was the ignorance of youth’
Twenty years later, Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Enda Walsh and Pat Kiernan talk about Corcadorca and the hit play that changed everything
‘Persevere...and keep having a laugh,’ actor Cillian Murphy tells youth groups in Galway
Corkman says he ‘still has dreams’ about the Leaving Cert
Corcadorca brushes up its Shakespeare
THERE’S A PING-PONG table at the back of the Triskel Arts Centre rehearsal space: the players have a bat in one hand and a script…
A fresh take on the greatest myths
The Arts: The latest site-specific show from Corcadorca reimagines the ancient Greek story of Medea and Jason and, in the process…
Shedding some light on Corcadorca's work
De-coding Corcadorca is by now a commonplace Cork occupation, but signs and portents can rarely have been so mixed as at last…
The Passion of Cork
Corcadorca Theatre Company brings theatre back to its religious roots on Good Friday with its ambitious, open-air passion play…
Misterman
Corcadorca as a theatre company is always clued in to topical issues, but not even writer Enda Walsh or Director Pat Kiernan …
All Cork was popping
Ever since the impressive success of Disco Pigs, all eyes have been on Corcadorca, the Cork theatre company
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