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Cork Midsummer Festival Throughout Cork city June 11-14, 18-21
Lorraine Maye, director of the cancelled Cork Midsummer Festival has announced a series of outdoor performances and activities in the city from June 11-14 and 18-21, presented by Corcadorca and the Festival, with support from the City Council. Social distancing will continue, but 40 Irish and international artists and local participants will be in action during the month.
Native company Corcadorca is bringing Contact, a travelling theatre performance to several city locations, reflecting our current curtailed social reality. Performers Eadaoin O’Donoghue and Cormac Mohally, will observe physical distance between themselves and the audience, who will be able to observe the 25-minute show outside their homes.
New Light is a series of billboard walks around Cork, commissioned by the Glucksman, the Cork University contemporary art museum. Eight Cork-based visual artists have created works for each walk, which will feature the eight artworks presented on billboard sites. The Glucksman itself is closed but the team has been online, providing art activities. The Shakey Bridge Listening
Project runs from June 18-21. It’s a site-specific audio walk, first created by Tom Lane in 2013, for the festival that year. The bridge is closed for maintenance but Tom has created a new version that can be experienced on any bridge across the River Lee. It uses sound recorded directly from Shakey Bridge (Daly’s Bridge) with a narration by Mark D’Aughton. Hidden Currents, also created by Tom Lane, is an audio walk using sound recorded from the River Lee, with a narration by the actor Olwen Fouéré. The starting point is outside the Cork Vision Centre, North Main Street.
June 21: Day of the Straws: In June 1832 in Charleville. Co Cork, the cholera epidemic has spread from Europe and across the country. As usual, there was panic, conspiracy theories, and quack cures. Artist Marie Brett and writer Katie Holly (Crowman) will explore how the cholera epidemic relates to our own recent events. The work is an online film, sound and vision art piece.
The Abbey Theatre has a series of podcasts online called Meet The Makers that has mostly actors being interviewed. It’s worth hearing director Cal McCrystal, who has a particular flair for comedy, talk about his Northern Irish background and his approach to directing. After about 25 minutes, it reverts to questions that are more routine. It’s also worth listening to Aaron Monaghan talking about his extraordinary physical performance in Richard III and his approach to the character. abbeytheatre.ie