WELCOME TO THE
Spring 2016
A note from our Artistic Director JULIE KELLEHER Happy New Year everyone! 2015 was an enormously positive one for the Everyman, thanks to your constant support and so we embark on the adventures of 2016 with great anticipation. It won’t have escaped any of you that this year has been designated as hugely important politically, socially and culturally. A year for commemoration and reflection, for looking at who we are, where we’ve come from, and where we are going as a society. We know that some of you will revel in all that this commemorative year has to offer, and some of you are already at saturation point and would rather forget about it. The Everyman’s spring programme has been put together with all of you in mind - whether it’s powerful storytelling to engage the mind or entertainment and escapism that you’re after. For this commemorative year, we wanted to bring you untold stories, and familiar stories told with a fresh perspective. We bring you a brand new Everyman production of Sean O’Casey’s classic play, Juno and the Paycock, directed by Ger FitzGibbon and featuring an all-star cast of Cork actors. This new production imagines the grit and hardship of O’Casey’s characters as they might have experienced it in a Cork city tenement. New plays Sisters of the Rising and Thomas Kent – 1916 Rebel re-tell the well-worn stories of the 1916 Rising through the voices of characters not usually made visible. We are thrilled to announce a very exciting new series of rehearsed readings as a further element of our 2016 offering. This series is a response to the current debate raging around gender equality in Irish theatre, sparked by the landmark #WakingTheFeminists campaign of 2015. It also attempts, in a modest way, to give voice to the extraordinary talents of the writers involved and questions the reasons for their absence from modern Irish stages. As ever, we are deeply grateful for your support which enables us to offer opportunities to local theatre artists to show their excellent work on the Everyman stage. We are delighted to welcome writer and director Marion Wyatt back to the Everyman with her brand new play, When We Were Young, as well as Cork playwright Alice Barry with her much-loved play Fruitcake starring Mary McEvoy. Brilliant Cork company Blood in the Alley returns this spring with another theatre classic – Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood, directed by Geoff Gould.
Music and comedy fans are utterly spoiled for choice, and it gives us great pleasure to welcome Cara O’Sullivan, Après Match, Des Bishop, Johnny McEvoy, Sandy Kelly, Faulty Towers, Graham Norton, Deirdre O’Kane and The Nualas, as well as fantastic tribute shows such as The King Is Back for all you Elvis fans, Piaf and The Simon and Garfunkel Story. The Everyman Sunday Songbook returns this spring with Tie A Yellow Ribbon: Songs We Danced To, which is sure to be a fantastic treat. And there’s more! We’re pinching ourselves a little bit here, because if we do say so ourselves, the spring season really does bring the best of contemporary classic touring theatre. On the classic front, actor Brendan Conroy brings J.M. Synge’s The Aran Islands to life in a new production, Decadent returns with Pat McCabe’s superb and blackly comic play The Dead School, and there is yet more dark humour from London Classic Theatre, as Goldberg and McCann arrive to terrorise Stanley in Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party. Two of Ireland’s finest proponents of contemporary theatre pay a visit: Brokentalkers bring their stunning and award-winning show The Blue Boy and Willfredd take us on a gentle journey with CARE, a show about the people who add life to days, if not days to life. And finally, we have a visit from the show that was the hottest theatre ticket at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Bryony Kimmings’ outstanding Fake it ‘til you Make it, a humble but important piece of work that is utterly heartwarming – we simply can’t wait for you to see it.
Beyond the Snug Building on the success of last year’s rehearsed reading series, Devilishly Good Plays, we are delighted to bring you a series of monthly rehearsed readings throughout 2016. Each reading will happen in the Everyman Bar but capacity is limited, so be warned! There are two things that every playwright selected for inclusion in this programme share: they are all women, and each of them were either born in or reside in Cork. Each of the works included share other common traits: excellence and craft. This series is a response to the current debate raging around gender equality in Irish theatre, sparked by the landmark #WakingTheFeminists campaign of 2015. It also attempts, in a modest way, to give voice to the extraordinary talents of these writers and questions the reasons for their absence from modern Irish stages. To date, two of the six included texts have had a full production. The plays cover a broad range of themes and topics – there is trauma laced with humour, the intimate agony of families torn apart, the grit of domestic life, and big picture thinking around issues that face us all: war, scientific progress, natural disaster, love and loss.
THU 21 JAN, 8PM
For the Want of a Nail by Jody O’Neill Mary recounts the tale of her ordinary life, married to husband John, giving birth to their son Jim, their ordinary marriage and family, their ordinary secrets and strains. This is a tale of ordinary disappointments and despair culminating in extraordinary events.
DIRECTED BY DEIRDRE DWYER
MON 29 FEB, 8PM
B For Baby by Carmel Winters Mrs C wants a baby, not a Christmas tree. B wants a real hairdresser’s scissors and a wife. D wants a snow globe and ‘a big head of dirty auld curls’. All of them want their own place in the world. And if they can’t find it, they’ll create one of their own.
DIRECTED BY SÍLE NÍ BHROIN
TUE 22 MAR, 8PM
Burning Dreams by Frances Kay Dublin, 1940. As WW2 rages in Europe, Ireland is beset with unemployment and tuberculosis. Dr. John Harrington is faced with a dilemma. With Patrick, the union man, Anja, the Polish refugee, and Mary, the tenement dweller each seeking his help – how can he possibly decide who is most deserving?
DIRECTED BY AIDEEN WYLDE
TUE 26 APR, 8PM
Marrying Dad by Gina Moxley Mimi and her neighbours Nancy and June go on the hunt for her missing husband Johnny. Deepset family tensions rise to the surface when daughter Gemma returns home to join the search.
DIRECTED BY JULIE KELLEHER
SAT 28 MAY, 2PM
New Work by Ailís Ní Riain For this series, Ailís is writing a new piece of work. We are delighted and honoured for her to share it with us here.
SAT 25 JUN, 2PM
Dorm by Lynda Radley Chris can’t sleep, ever. Vicky’s job is to monitor those suffering sleeprelated conditions. They take a late night sleepwalk through blurry memories and half-remembered moments, as characters both real and surreal drift in and out.
Tickets €9 Please note that capacity for these readings is limited as they will take place in the Everyman bar.
DRAMA
The Aran Islands BY J.M. SYNGE Join Brendan Conroy, as J.M. Synge, as he leads the audience on a journey to the Aran Islands, where he immersed himself in the life and culture of the islanders in a story full of humour, empathy and insight.
Mon 25 – Wed 27 Jan 8pm
… ASTONISHING PERFORMANCE examiner.com
ADAPTED FOR THE STAGE BY JOE O’ BYRNE Tickets €20 | Concession €18 | Students €9
MUSIC from the Noun Project
An Evening with Cara Join one of Ireland’s best loved voices, an artist with impeccable pedigree, for an evening of unforgettable show stoppers.
With guest artists Marja Gaynor and John Molloy.
Thu 28 – Sat 30 Jan 8pm
… UNDOUBTEDLY THE IRISH SUPERSTAR OF HER GENERATION The Irish Times
MUSICAL DIRECTOR JOHN O’ BRIEN Tickets €26 | Concession €23
FAMILY
Lambert Puppet Theatre presents
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Sun 31 Jan 12.30pm & 2.30pm
This is a beautifully produced show with large puppets, colourful sets and exquisite lighting and is suitable for an age group up to ten years of age.
Show is 65 minutes with no interval Tickets €10
WITH SPECIAL GUEST
BOSCO
MUSIC from the Noun Project
The King is Back Experience the essence and spirit of what it must have been like to see the young King perform. With stunning costumes and superb musicianship, this is one of the best Elvis tributes performing today.
WINNER OF THE ELVIS PRESLEY ENTERPRISE MEMPHIS ULTIMATE ELVIS CONTEST Tickets €25 | Special Offer 4 tickets €90
Wed 3 Feb | 8pm
AM-DRAM
Glen Theatre Drama Group presents
The Field BY JOHN B. KEANE
The Field is perhaps John B. Keane’s most powerful and best known play with the Bull McCabe as its central character. The Bull is a tenant farmer with a ferocious temper and an obsession with the field he has been renting from a poor widow. After years of backbreaking toil, McCabe has transformed the field from three acres of rocky wasteland into a lush green pasture. But when the widow decides to put the property up for auction without considering his work, an outraged McCabe is determined to buy it at all costs. He decides to deal with the situation in the only way he knows and his actions have tragic consequences.
DIRECTED BY TADHG O KEEFFE.
Thu 4 & Fri 5 Feb 8pm
“
God made the world, but we made the Field
”
Tickets €17
MUSIC from the Noun Project
Cookie and the Vaudevilles Join Cookie and the Vaudevilles, featuring Caitriona Fallon, former lead vocalist for Riverdance, in a unique live show that will blow you away with a passionate and lively performance. With hints of jazz, hues of the blues, a peppering of rock and the style of the classics, grab your glad rags and we’ll get those fingers clicking!
Tickets €17
Sat 6 Feb 8pm
DRAMA
The Everyman presents
Juno and the Paycock BY SEAN O’ CASEY Meet the Boyles: a hilarious, drunken father; a ferociously loyal mother; a wounded son; and a daughter with “notions”. Theirs is a family beset by poverty and war but offered the tantalising promise of sudden riches. How that happens and how they react to it is at the core of this wonderful tragicomedy, O’Casey’s funniest and most moving exploration of humour, politics, laughter, betrayal and heartbreak.
Wed 10 – Sat 20 Feb 8pm (excl. Sun 14) Post show talk Tue 16 Feb
O’ Casey’s work is based in the Dublin tenements, but the circumstance and experiences of the Boyles could have happened in any town or city. With that in mind, this new production imagines the grit and hardship of O’ Casey’s characters as they might have experienced it in a Cork city tenement and features an all-star cast of Cork actors. DIRECTED BY GER FITZGIBBON Tickets €26 | Concession €23 | Students €15 | School Performance Fri 12 Feb, 11am, €15
COMEDY
Après Match Expect your favourite football pundits - Eamon Dunphy, Liam Brady and Kenny Cunningham and some other loved and not so well loved characters including George Hook, Paul Durcan, Joan Burton, Mary O’ Rourke, Alex Ferguson, Martin O’ Neill, the inimitable John Delaney and many more!
Sun 14 Feb | 8pm
Get off the bench and book your tickets today to watch Gary Cooke, Risteárd Cooper and Barry Murphy hit the back of the net!
Tickets €28
AM-DRAM
The Briery Gap Players presents
MOLL BY JOHN B. KEANE This John B. Keane classic is an hilarious comedy and is often described as the “Fr Ted” of its era. It tells the story of a Canon and his two curates in an Irish country presbytery who find themselves in need of a new housekeeper. Enter Moll Kettle, whose arrival is compared to a country getting a new government. Sit back and enjoy the exploits of this formidable woman!
DIRECTED BY MICHAEL TWOMEY Tickets €15 | Concession €12
Sun 21 Feb | 8pm
DRAMA
Under Milk Wood BY DYLAN THOMAS In this exciting new production from Blood in the Alley, Geoff Gould directs an all-male ensemble in Dylan Thomas’s unique vision of human experience hammered out of the small Welsh seaside town of Llareggub (Llareggub is ”bugger all” spelt backwards). Beautifully surreal, darkly comic and bawdy, Under Milk Wood is replete with characters who are romantic, earthy, mad, parochial and easily recognisable to all.
Mon 22 - Wed 24 Feb 8pm Starring Rowan Finken, Denis Foley and Martin Lucey Running time 80 minutes
DIRECTED BY GEOFF GOULD Tickets €26 | Concession €23 | Students €9
COMEDY
Des Bishop – Grey Matters The fantasy of everlasting youth dyed with Des’s last purchase of Just for Men over a year ago. Now he is embracing the grey and letting the wisdom of his years inspire his stand up. Grey Matters tackles the issues confronting Des these days, returning to live in New York, being surrounded by other people’s kids, gender and marriage equality, the dangers of snapchat, dating a Chinese woman, the prospect of reaching 40 and most of all, after the documentary-style stand up show, about his time in China.
Tickets €27
Thu 25 – Sat 27 Feb 8pm
Cyclone Rep, in association with The Everyman, presents
SCHOOLS
The Shakespeare Sessions
Entertaining and engaging student-centred performances of Shakespeare texts. Each performance includes a scholarly review clarifying the main themes as well as discussions with the students and the opportunity to participate. Cyclone Rep’s Shakespeare Sessions will guide Junior Cert and Leaving Cert learners in their understanding of the Bard’s masterpieces.
Mon 29 Feb | The Romeo & Juliet Session - 9.45am (Sold
Thu 3 Mar | The Hamlet Session - 9.45am (Sold Out)
Tue 1 Mar | The Merchant Session - 9.45am & 1.00pm
Fri 4 Mar | The Hamlet Session - 9.45am
Wed 2 Mar | The King Lear Session - 9.45am (Sold Out) &
Fri 4 Mar | The Merchant Session - 1.00pm
Out) & 1.00pm
1.00pm
& 1.00pm
To enquire about school bookings please contact the Cyclone Rep team. Tel: 021 235 5356 | Mob: 085 8585502 | Email: info@cyclonerep.com
Tickets €14 | Balcony (general audience) €10
Mon 29 Feb Fri 4 Mar
AN EXCELLENT PRODUCTION, ONE THAT WILL BE REMEMBERED BY STUDENTS - Vivienne Naughton, The Teresian School, Dublin Teacher (Review of The Merchant Session)
MUSIC from the Noun Project
Tom Kelly Promotions presents
An Evening with
Johnny McEvoy This nostalgic evening of song and story features all of Johnny’s many hit songs, including Muirsheen Durkin, Boston Burglar, Those Brown Eyes and Long, Long Before Your Time.
Sat 5 Mar | 8pm
His songs are haunting, evocative and beautifully delivered with storytelling of the finest order.
Tickets €27
MUSIC from the Noun Project
Tom Kelly Promotions presents
Patsy Cline
50th Anniversary Tour Music and Memories STARRING SANDY KELLY This wonderful evening of nostalgia brings the audience on a trip down memory lane as Sandy Kelly sings the music of the great Patsy Cline including the timeless and classic hit songs Crazy and Sweet Dreams. With a brilliant live band and special guest Gerry Guthrie, one of the most talented new Irish country stars, this is a show not to be missed!
Tickets €27
Sun 6 Mar | 8pm
DRAMA
Decadent Theatre Company presents
The Dead School
WRITTEN BY PAT MCCABE A titanic clash between the forces of modernism and tradition in 1970’s Ireland. Raphael Bell, an old style national school teacher, whose life is haunted by images and memories from his past, has devoted his life to upholding all that is traditional, pure and wholesome in the Ireland of Eucharistic Congresses. On the other side stands Malachy Dugeon, a first year teacher and one of the new breed about town, where rock music and American movies are king and rules are made to be broken. When these two men come together, chaos is only round the corner.
DIRECTED BY ANDREW FLYNN Tickets €26 | Concession €23 | Students €9
Tue 8 – Sat 12 Mar 8pm TOP OF THE CLASS… PAT MCCABE AT HIS BEST. DIRECTOR ANDREW FLYNN PULLS OUT ALL THE STOPS The Sunday Times
FANTASTIC
Irish Examiner
Post show talk Tue 8 Mar
COMEDY
Faulty Towers The Dining Experience
Tue 8 – Sat 12 Mar | 7.30pm Sun 13 Mar | 1.30pm & 7.30pm
Faulty Towers – The Dining Experience is just that, a dining experience. The public are coming to dinner as if they were coming to dinner at the infamous Fawlty Towers Hotel. During the course of the evening they will eat dinner, chat with their companions and be entertained by Basil, Sybil and Manuel.
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND
Tickets €49.50 (includes 3 course set menu with tea/coffee as part of the performance)
DRAMA
Sisters of the Rising BY CHRISTIANE O’MAHONY It’s 1936. DeValera commemorates the heroes of 1916 with pomp and ceremony. But some are forgotten. Disillusioned by her sister’s omission, Josie O’Farrell is compelled to tell her story.
Easter Monday 1916, a determined young Josie and her sister Gillian join the march at Liberty Hall and find their way into the GPO for an adventure that changes their lives forever. Sisters of the Rising is a funny and poignant story and a testament to the many forgotten women who fought for Irish independence. ORIGINAL SCORE BY JOHN O’ BRIEN DIRECTED BY ANUSHKA SENANAYAKE Tickets €20 | Concession €18 | Student €9
Mon 14 – Fri 18 Mar 8pm
Post show talk Wed 16 Mar NEW PLAY
COMEDY
Conal Gallen A Laugh and a Half
Ireland’s ambassador of comedy is back on stage with his hilarious new one man stand up show. After taking over 18 months out to tour his hugely successful comedy play A Bit On The Side, Conal is back with what promises to be his best show yet, jam-packed with over two hours of hilarious jokes, stories and songs which will have you in stitches from start to finish!
Sat 19 Mar | 8pm
Tickets €22
FUNDRAISER SOLD OUT
Graham Norton and Friends
A Concert for Helen Talk show king and international star Graham Norton is coming to Cork to host a concert dedicated to laughter, celebration and song in memory of Bandon teenager Helen Fennell. Graham will be joined by well-loved Cork based performers and musicians including Linda Kenny, John Spillane, the Glaslinn Choir and Cork Arts Studio Youth Choir along with some very talented newcomers including Eddie Ryan, Sam Hudson, Eva McCarthy and Katie Lynch. Tickets €40
Sun 20 Mar | 8pm
DRAMA
Brokentalkers presents
The Blue Boy Urgent and vital, the award-winning Blue Boy deals with the experiences of men and women who were incarcerated as children in Catholic residential care institutions. The production combines startling choreography with live music, multi-media, and film, alongside recorded testimony from men and women who resided in these institutions. Following sell-out runs at the Dublin Theatre Festival and Dublin Dance Festival The Blue Boy has toured to Australia, France, Spain, Portugal and Italy. This is the first time Brokentalkers have embarked on a national tour with this compelling work which evokes hidden violence and brings a fresh theatrical voice to stories of child abuse. The Blue Boy gives intense physical expression to the anguish experienced by those who were silenced – it is essential watching for our times. Brokentalkers are Project Artists; an initiative of Project Arts Centre.
PLEASE NOTE THIS CONTAINS MATERIAL THAT SOME VIEWERS MIGHT FIND DISTURBING.
Tickets €20 | Concession €18 | Students €9
Wed 30 Mar – Sat 2 Apr 8pm
Post show talk Wed 30 Mar
POWERFULLY PHYSICAL, HAUNTING MATERIAL Financial Times
DRAMA
When We Were Young WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY MARION WYATT Finbar Vaughan leaves Cork in 1947 “to see the entire world.” In 1952, during leave, he meets Tina Furlong, a Wexford girl, who sweeps him off his feet.
Preview Wed 6 Apr | 8pm Thu 7 – Sat 16 Apr | 8pm (excl. Sun 10) NEW PLAY
When We Were Young is a romantic drama about the beautiful Tina and her romance with Finbar, a handsome sailor. Their romance is intense, leaving her lonely and afraid once he ships out. “If you love me, why do you sail away?” Set in the 1950s, this story follows Tina and Finbar as they navigate life through its ups and downs. It is an innocent, charming and ultimately moving story told in an honest, unsentimental and powerful manner. When We Were Young is based on a true story inspired by the writer’s own family history.
Tickets €26 | Concession €23 | Students €9 | Preview €20
Post show talk Tue 12 Apr
“
What happens when love interferes with your dreams?
”
MUSIC from the Noun Project
The Everyman Sunday Songbook Tie a Yellow Ribbon, The Songs We Danced To Come join our Songbook team for a night of pure nostalgia as we revisit the songs that dominated the ballrooms of romance all over Ireland. From Tom Jones to Dickie Rock, Eileen Reid to Dusty Springfield, relive your precious memories in a programme chosen entirely by our audience.
Sun 10 Apr | 7.30pm
Starring Linda Kenny, Damian Smith and Ryan Morgan with a very special guest appearance by showband legend Declan Ryan. All will be accompanied by our fabulous Sunday Songbook band with Alan Carney as MD and as ever our Grand Master of Ceremonies will be the legendary Michael Twomey. DIRECTED BY CATHAL MACCABE Tickets €20
DRAMA
Fake it ‘til you Make it Bryony is an outrageous, hilarious and fearless performance artist from London. Tim is an outrageous, hilarious and fearless account manager from a top advertising agency. Bryony and Tim are a couple. Six months into their relationship, Bryony found out that Tim suffers from severe clinical depression. He had kept it a secret for a very long time. A wickedly warming, brutally honest and heart-breaking show about the wonders and pitfalls of the human brain, being in love and what it takes to be a ‘real man’.
Mon 18 – Wed 20 Apr 8pm Post show talk Tue 19 Apr DEEPLY AFFECTING Evening Standard
WARM AND ILLUMINATING… IT COULD EVEN SAVE LIVES The Telegraph
Tickets €20 | Concession €18 | Students €9
MUSIC from the Noun Project
Christine Bovill’s Piaf No glamour. No gimmicks. No pretence. Nothing but a voice, singing of life’s triumphs and tragedies. Piaf is both a personal narrative and a powerful musical homage to one of France’s most endearing icons.
Thu 21 Apr | 8pm
SOMETHING THAT WILL STAY WITH YOU FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE The Sunday Times Tickets €26
COMEDY
Deirdre O’ Kane 1Dee
After a seven year break from stand-up, during which she had more babies, made a movie in Vietnam and became the mother of Moone Boy, Deirdre O’ Kane returns with a brand new show. What has she learned from being a mum, achieving the glory of a mid-life crisis and chasing after collagen as it attempts to leave her life forever? She reveals all (well, nearly all) in 1Dee. Tickets €22
Sat 23 Apr | 8pm
DRAMA
Willfredd Theatre presents
Wed 27 – Fri 29 Apr 8pm
CARE
On a hilltop in Cork, staff are working around the clock. They make tea. They paint nails. They refill syringe drivers. Some pray. Some don’t. Everyone they care for is dying.
CONSTANTLY INVENTIVE, AFFECTIONATE AND BEAUTIFULLY PERFORMED
WillFredd Theatre’s CARE gives audiences an insight into the day-to-day world of hospice staff. Developed over a year spent in consultation with Irish hospices, CARE fuses movement, live music and theatre, celebrating the people who help you live until you die. Every word, sound and image in CARE is drawn from daily hospice life. With a little bit of Elvis thrown in for good measure.
The Irish Times
Post show talk Thu 28 Apr Captioned and audio described performance – 29 Apr
Tickets €20 | Concession €18 | Students €9
FAMILY
Tumble Circus presents
Starman WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY KEN FANNING A one man circus, comedy and theatre show. Have you ever looked to the heavens for inspiration or guidance? Starman, the latest show from the award-winning Tumble Circus, is an entertaining expedition into what happens when dreams and destiny collide and follows the journey of one man and his life as a circus artist, a dad, and a clown. Starman promises an energetic mix of stand-up, slapstick, sequins, and … cardboard.
DIRECTED BY COLM O’ GRADY Tickets €15 | Family Price €50 (4 tickets)
Sat 30 Apr | 2pm Sun 1 May | 2pm & 7.30pm For ages 6 and up Running time 55 minutes
MUSICAL COMEDY from the Noun Project
Breda Cashe and Happybag Productions present
Elvis is my Daddy BY JOHN MURPHY A new Irish musical starring Eilish O’Carroll from Mrs. Brown’s Boys who swaps her hairnet for the glitter of sequins in a performance more sassy than Bassey, as Fair City’s Clelia Murphy reveals herself as a singing and dancing tour-de-force along with the amazing voice of Elaine Hearty. Together they tell the amazing story of Las Vegas legend Lana Lavelle, who played alongside Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and got more than a little shook up with Elvis Presley. After almost forty years as a recluse the legend is planning the comeback to end all comebacks. But the best laid plans…
Starring Eilish O’Carroll, Clelia Murphy, Elaine Hearty and Mark O’ Regan DIRECTED BY MARK LAMBERT Tickets €28 | Concession €26
Tue 3 – Sat 7 May 8pm
IT'S A SING-A-LONG, TAP YOUR TOES EXTRAVAGANZA Anna Nolan, The Herald
DRAMA
Lantern Productions presents
Mon 9 – Fri 13 May 8pm
Thomas Kent – 1916 Rebel
“
BY FERGHAL DINEEN & EOIN Ó HANNRACHÁIN On May 9, 1916 Thomas Kent became the only man outside of Dublin to be executed on Irish soil in the immediate aftermath of the Easter Rising. This forgotten story is brought to you as part of the 1916 centenary celebrations with the first performance taking place on the 100 year anniversary of Kent’s execution.
The thrilling and heartbreaking story of Cork man Thomas Kent, part of a prominent nationalist family who lived in Castlelyons, follows his journey from his involvement in the Land League, to advocating for Irish independence to becoming a well-known member of the Irish Volunteers. Prepared to take part in the Easter Rising, the Kent brothers returned home after the mobilization order was countermanded. This, however, was not to be the end of their fight…
DIRECTED BY EOIN Ó HANNRACHÁIN Tickets €26 | Concession €23 | Students €9
NEW PLAY
No threat could bend them, No force could break them, No wiles could lure them from The road of right; true men, Loyal to the cause of Eireann, Soldiers fearless in the fiercest fight. From early boyhood, Through the years of manhood, On the march to liberty their lives were spent. God grant to Erin in her day of danger Guards unwavering as the brothers Kent.
”
COMEDY
The Nualas: The Glitterbomb Tour With scorchingly brilliant new songs, red hot new chat and blistering new shoes, The Nualas are jetting in for one night only to leave you helpless with laughter, delirious with pleasure, and a little disorientated if you can’t remember which door you came in.
THE NUALAS HAVE PUT COMEDY AND MUSIC IN THE BLENDER AND COME UP WITH A WORLD CLASS ACT
Sat 14 May | 8pm
DAMMIT! THE NUALAS CAN SING AND MAKE YOUR FACE ACHE FROM LAUGHING. Time Out
The Times
THEY’RE FUNNY. SIMPLE AS. The Irish Times Tickets €23
FILM
Banff Mountain Film Festival Experience an evening of extraordinary short films from the world’s most prestigious mountain film festival. Follow the expeditions of some of today’s most incredible adventurers, see amazing footage of adrenaline packed action sports and be inspired by thought-provoking pieces shot from the far flung corners of the globe. Visit www.banff-uk.com for more details.
Tickets €14 | Concession €12
Sun 22 May | 7.30pm
DRAMA
London Classic Theatre presents
The Birthday Party BY HAROLD PINTER A shabby boarding house in a small English seaside town. An elderly couple take care of a solitary guest, who rarely ventures out. The arrival of two enigmatic strangers seems to offer a welcome distraction from their mundane existence. But when an impromptu, seemingly innocent birthday party abruptly turns into a deadly game of cat and mouse, there are horrifying repercussions. By turns cryptic thriller and macabre comedy, The Birthday Party was Harold Pinter’s first major work and is among the most unusual and absorbing of his plays. London Classic Theatre presents the first significant touring revival of the twenty-first century, promising to bring this ground-breaking classic to fresh and exhilarating life.
DIRECTED BY MICHAEL CABOT Tickets €26 | Concession €23 | Students €9
Mon 16 – Sat 21 May 8pm
“
There’s a gentleman living here. He’s got a birthday today, and he’s forgotten all about it. So we’re going to remind him. We’re going to give him a party.
”
DRAMA
Noggin Theatre Company presents
Fruitcake
Tue 24 – Sat 28 May 8pm
BY ALICE BARRY Under the guise of a cookery demonstration where Della Dolan shows us how to make ‘the perfect Fruitcake’. She also divests her provoking memories. Della gives a fascinating account of her life and divulges a chequered past involving hardship, murder and intrigue but most of all great sacrifice, realisation and love. Funny and poignant, see Mary McEvoy captivate her audience in this delightful, moving one woman show that will make you laugh and cry and remind you why life is ultimately rewarding and exciting for all its ups and downs.
Tickets €22 | Concession €20 | Student €9
IT IS AN UNEXPECTEDLY MOVING PIECE OF WORK. Evening Echo
Starring Mary McEvoy
MUSIC from the Noun Project
The Simon and Garfunkel Story Direct from its success in London’s West End, a sold-out UK tour and standing ovations at every performance, The Simon and Garfunkel Story is not to be missed! Using huge projection photos and original film footage, this 50th anniversary celebration also features a full live band performing all the hits including Mrs. Robinson, Cecilia, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Homeward Bound and many more.
Mon 23 May | 8pm
AUTHENTIC AND EXCITING The Stage
Tickets €26
CIRCUS
The Circus of Horrors WELCOME TO THE CARNEVIL
The show that stormed into the finals of Britain’s Got Talent and now a West End smash celebrates its 21st anniversary in spectacular style. Set in Victorian London in 1899, this story twists and turns with grisly murders and sensational shocks all interwoven with some of the greatest and most bizarre circus acts on earth, performed by an almighty cast with a forked tongue firmly in each cheek and the devil driven rock n’ roll of Dr. Haze and the Interceptors from Hell.
16+ Tickets €25
Sun 29 May | 8pm IF QUENTIN TARANTINO HAD DIRECTED CIRQUE DU SOLEIL THEN YOU WOULD BE ONLY HALF WAY THERE.
AM-DRAM
Glen Theatre Drama Group presents
Widow’s Paradise Thu 9 June | 8pm
BY SAM CREE This farcical comedy is set in the 70’s and the action takes place in a seaside caravan with five ladies embarking on a strictly women only holiday. A case of mistaken caravan identity sends the widows’ paradise into disarray with the arrival of no nonsense alpha-male Harry, his dim-witted sidekick Ernie, and Harry’s handsome young son Alan. Add a couple of surprise visitors in the form of Willie and Farmer John and you have hysterical chaos. What was supposed to be a scene of peace and tranquillity turns into a riotous clash of the sexes, with each of the ten characters having his/her own story to tell.
DIRECTED BY TADHG O KEEFFE
Tickets €15
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Melanie Kavanagh – Marketing Manager Favourite thing about working at The Everyman
That would have to be the shows and to date I have worked on almost 350 of them, each one so different. They have all challenged me and they have also taught me a lot about life. For me, watching a show is the best way to connect with and understand a subject that I may not be familiar with, or indeed think I am familiar with, and then be blown away by what is revealed to me on the stage. Shows have made me laugh, cry and some have changed me. You don’t get to experience this real time story telling anywhere else so it is something that I truly treasure.
Best Moment
What I do:
I am the marketing manager here in the Everyman, so this means I am in charge of promoting all the shows that take place here, using every opportunity to let audiences know what is happening on our stage. I devise marketing plans for every show so that means deciding the best way to reach people be it through posters, brochures, print advertising, radio, online or direct mail. I work mostly on shows that are presented by people outside of the venue but I also get to work on shows we produce here ourselves. Those are the ones I am most proud of as I get to be much more involved in the process and am responsible for a lot more. It is a very special thing to be part of a show from its very inception, see it through rehearsals and then watch audience’s react, relate and respond to it. It is quite magical and I feel very lucky to be part of it all. This is when I get to be most creative so it is very fulfilling.
One of my best moments has a professional and personal element. In 2012 we produced our first large scale opera - Pagliacci. The amount of love and work that went into that show was incredible. The auditorium was totally transformed and it was breath taking to see it all in motion. I was at the opening night performance glowing with pride and then just five days later I had a gorgeous little boy in my life, my son Harry, who was born on the day of the final performance. A very momentous week all-round!
Favourite Show
It is hard to pick favourites as they have all touched me in some way but our opera’s Pagliacci and Faust were just incredible. It fascinates me that music written so long ago still has the power to touch so many people. Those shows opened me up to music I didn’t think was for me and I still listen to them quite regularly. I also have to mention Pat Kinevane and his trilogy of plays produced by Fishamble. I will never forget the first time I saw Pat Kinevane perform, I cried for hours afterwards and his performances are still with me. Therein lies the power of theatre.
BUYING YOUR TICKETS
www.everymancork.com | Tel. 021 450 1673 Box Office, The Everyman, 15 MacCurtain Street, Cork (Please note a booking fee of €2.50 per ticket applies to telephone and online bookings, this includes each ticket in the family price)
WAYS TO SAVE Concession Tickets Available to senior citizens (Over 65s), full time students and the unemployed for many performances. Student Tickets from €9 Available to full time students for many performances. Group Bookings Special ticket discounts available to groups of ten or more for selected shows. Reserve now – pay later – no booking fees apply!
BOX OFFICE OPENING HOURS MONDAY – SATURDAY | 12pm to 7.30pm (5pm non-performance days) SUNDAY & BANK HOLIDAYS | 4pm to 7.30pm (performance days only)
ACCESSIBILITY The theatre is wheelchair accessible with an adapted w.c. There is one designated parking space outside the front door. Please advise box office at time of booking if you have any access requirements.
The Everyman is one of Ireland’s leading middle scale presenting and producing theatres. Originally opened in 1897, it is the oldest purpose built theatre building in Cork. A jewel of late Victorian architecture, the theatre is steeped in history and is a favourite with audiences and performers alike for its intimacy and atmosphere.
THE PALACE BAR
The Palace Bar is the perfect venue for your pre-show drink and opens each performance night at 7pm. Enjoy a beverage of your choice in the intimate surroundings of this beautiful little gem. Please note we take interval orders before the show to avoid any rush at the break. And don’t worry if you don’t finish your drink in the time allowed, we will look after it until the end of the show or you can choose to take it with you in the plastic cups on offer. Don’t forget us after the performance as we remain open after every show to give you the chance to chat and rub shoulders with the actors and directors.
EVERY SEAT TELLS A STORY
Sponsor one of our seats and have your name, or that of a loved one engraved on the back of a seat, plus a favourite Everyman memory recorded.
EXCHANGE & REFUND
Tickets can only be refunded in the event of a show being cancelled or a change of date and time. Tickets can be exchanged, subject to availability, for another performance within the same run up to 24hrs before the original performance booked. Exchanges are subject to an 80 cent charge per ticket up to a maximum of €4.
WEDDINGS
Would you like to get married on the stage of The Everyman? We are an approved venue for civil weddings.
PLEASE NOTE: The Everyman reserves the right to vary the advertised programme or cast if necessary. Latecomers may only be admitted at a suitable break in the performance and at the discretion of management.
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