Cork Opera House
Tuesday 17 – Friday 20 June, 8pm
Saturday 21 June, 3pm & 8pm
Tickets: €20/€25/€30, Matinee €18
Tickets can be purchased from the Festival Box Office or from Cork Opera House
021 4270022 or online from www.corkoperahouse.ie
The Seafarer
by Conor McPherson
Irish Premiere
Drink yourself up on to the next shelf in the basement. Drink to where possibility feels infinite and your immortality feels strong.
It’s Christmas Eve and Sharky has returned to Dublin to look after his irascible, ageing brother who’s recently gone blind. Old drinking buddies Ivan and Nicky are holed up at the house too, hoping to play some cards. With the arrival of a stranger from the distant past, the stakes are raised ever higher. In fact, Sharky may be playing for his very soul…
The Abbey Theatre is delighted to present the Irish premiere of the latest play from Conor McPherson (The Weir, Shining City) at the Cork Opera House as part of the Cork Midsummer Festival. A triumph in London and New York, The Seafarer is a powerful, funny and unsettling tale that proves once again that McPherson is a born storyteller.
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Directed by Jimmy Fay, winner of Irish Times Theatre Award, Best Director, 2007.
Cast: Liam Carney, George Costigan, Phelim Drew, Maelíosa Stafford, Don Wycherley
‘…a wide-awake nightmare…poetic, brutal, athletic, hilarious’_ The Sunday Times
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