Mardyke Walk, next to cricket ground, Cork City
Thursday 26 – Sunday 29 June
6.30pm, 7.45pm & 9pm
Tickets €16/€14
Family Ticket (2 Adults, 2 Children) just €46 – ie second child goes FREE!!
Note 12 years old and up

The theatrical fairground

Awarded 1st prize Tarrega International Theatre Festival 2007

Imagine a fairground that runs off your energy. A high-octane carnival that’s a cross between a night at the circus and the thrill of the funfair. Once through the gateway the audience, transported to a world of fairground folk with fantastic tales, are free to roam, following the performers from location to location and enjoying the array of custom fairground rides all made from recycled materials. In the true spirit of climate change all the energy to operate the rides comes from the patrons of the funfair… even the lighting.

A globascope, a ferris wheel, a merry-goround, or a visit to the fairground fortune teller, are all activities on offer, …the funfair, the carnival, theatre and circus all rolled into one fantastic spectacle that is Sensazione!

Laika is an international theatre company based in Antwerp that creates a ‘theatre of the senses’. Time Circus, also from Antwerp, specialise in building innovative theatre machines.

The Sensazione tour of Ireland is a coproduction between Cork Midsummer Festival, Clonmel Junction Festival and Earagail Arts Festival, Donegal.

Festival Director. “Why I chose this?” Whatever your age, whatever your walk of life, Sensazione is a great experience. Pure, unadulterated fun. One visit to this fairground won’t be enough. We are also pleased to bring Sensazione to Youghal in County Cork, the home of the Irish funfair.

also at Youghal Town Centre, Thursday 19– Sunday 22 June [ more info ]

Event Features

Sat 14 Jun 2008 Fiona McCann in the Irish Times