Cork Midsummer Festival, with the support of Culture Ireland, is delighted to bring Mimic to New York running at Performance Space 122 from Friday January 8th to Sunday January 17th as part of COIL 2010. First performed at Cork Midsummer Festival in June 2007, Mimic then played at the Galway and Kilkenny Arts Festivals, and the Dublin Fringe Festival. It was revived at Cork Midsummer Festival 2009 as part of the festival’s first International Showcase.

Written, composed and performed by Raymond Scannell (awarded Best Male Performer at Dublin Fringe Festival) Mimic is a poetic and extraordinarily prescient solo performance about a culture in economic and spiritual freefall. Mimic is a story about a young man, Julian Neary, who becomes a professional Mimic and leaves home to get out of the grip of the culture and family life of 1980’s Ireland, and about what he finds when he returns home years later. A dark satire about imitation, authenticity, and what happens to a nation that leaves its heritage behind. Director Tom Creed was recently hailed as “one of the most accomplished and productive Irish theatre-makers of the decade” by the Irish Times.

If you happen to be in the neighbourhood make sure to catch a performance of this remarkable production!

Good luck to all the cast and crew from Ireland.

Read more on the Performance Space 122 website

date posted: 06 January 2010