Bankrobbing and late walks in Cork arts festival
The mid-summer festival season is already limbering up – tickets for Cork festival (June 12-23) are now on sale, booking for Galway festival (July 15-18) opened this week and Kilkenny festival has released its classical music and opera programme – its full festival programme to be announced in June.
Cork festival is pitching itself as a whole city turned into a stage. Along with the vast array of theatrical and musical fare, there’s a ‘sensational circus spectacle’, lots of street events, and a latenight wandering production with seven suitcase-carrying characters in ALTER (June 1416, 10pm) by Kamchatka, which explores themes of migration and displacement.
Dance/theatre company Lost Dog presents Paradise Lost (June 21-22) at Dance Cork Firkin Crane. Inspired by Milton’s great poem, this is a funny one-man retelling of the creation of everything: told through words, music and movement. It’s described as ‘laugh-out-loud entertainment’ that may also apparently break your heart. Deirdre Kinahan’s
TEMPESTA (June 14-23) at The Pav is inspired by real events. It’s the story of two Dubliners caught up in the war in 1930s Europe, with music by Steve Wickham (The Waterboys) . The Summer I Robbed A Bank (June 15-16) at The Everyman is an adaptation by Mark Doherty of David O’Doherty’s bestselling children’s book. Age 7+.
Detached And The Moth (June 2023) at Dance Cork Firkin Crane is part of Elaine McCague’s Detached Project. It is described as a journey for the senses through aerial acrobatics, film, dance and sound.
Home Sweet Home (June 1215), from Suisha at the Granary Theatre, is a play about housing, horror films and protest, which includes audio description, captioning and Irish Sign language. See cork.midsummer.com
Irish National Opera’s next production (touring from Tuesday until May 31), is La Traviata, which went from a disastrous opening night to being arguably Verdi’s most popular opera. See irishnationalopera.ie