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Enda Walsh

Playwright Enda Walsh

The Corcadorca theatre company in Cork celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, and to mark the occasion, they’re hosting a world premiere in a most unusual location.

Louise Kearney writes:

Corcadorca Theatre Company are to premiére a brand new work by multi-award winning playwright, Enda Walsh. Commissioned to mark the renowned company’s 25th anniversary, The Same will open in Cork on February 13th. The venue for this site-specific production is the old Cork prison premises on Rathmore Road, where it will run for two weeks, until February 25th. Having closed as a working prison in early 2016, this will be the first production to be held behind these previously locked doors.

Enda Walsh has a long association with Corcadorca and this two-woman show, directed by Pat Kiernan, sees sisters Catherine and Eileen Walsh cast alongside each other for the first time. When two women meet for the first time, they gradually realise their connection to each other…

Tickets on sale now.

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Acrylic paintings by artist Josh Keyes who sez:

Who is to say what surface is to be kept graffiti clean? My personal concern is that this will be a reality some day and speaks to a larger issue of our relationship with the natural world. The satellite and space graffiti hints that even if we colonize other worlds, what mark will we leave? No matter where we go there is evidence of our presence.

Fair enough.

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