Cast announced for Theatre for One: This Ireland

Sarah Agha, Kathy Rose O'Brien, Grace Collender, Peter Corboy, Kate Gilmore, Liath Hannon, Anna Healy, Demi Isaac Oviawe, Úna Kavanagh, Aoibhéann McCann, Aisling O'Sullivan and Joan Sheehy will perform 12 short 5-minute plays for one audience member at a time in a purpose-built booth on Emmet plaza, outside Cork Opera House as part of Cork Midsummer Festival from 15-23 June.

Produced by Landmark Productions and Octopus Theatricals LLC, in association with Cork Midsummer Festival and Cork Opera House, this promises to be a uniquely intimate experience.

This is a free event and no booking is required. Simply join the queue.

Theatre for One: This Ireland
📍 Emmet Place [outside Cork Opera House as part of Cork Midsummer Festival]
🗓️ 15 - 23 June [excl 17 June]
⏰ For timings see https://bit.ly/theatreforone
🆓 Free event

Theatre for One: This Ireland | 12 x 5-minute plays
1. Kate Gilmore in Queen of the Pyramids by Emmet Kirwan
2. Úna Kavanagh in Bait by Louise Lowe
3. Kathy Rose O'Brien in Brilliant by Stacey Gregg
4. Aisling O'Sullivan in The Spur by Mark O'Rowe
5. Anna Healy in Cygnum Canticum by Marina Carr
6. Peter Corboy in Cave by Enda Walsh
7. Grace Collender in Blue Heat by Iseult Deane (mentored by Marina Carr)
8. Liath Hannon in Freeze by Ois O'Donoghue (mentored by Louise Lowe)
9. Aoibhéann McCann in Humanitarian by Aoibhéann McCann (mentored by Stacey Gregg)
10. Demi Isaac Oviawe in Dear Rosa by Joy Nesbitt (mentored by Enda Walsh)
11. Sarah Agha in Fruit for Thought by Susannah Al Fraihat (mentored by Emmet Kirwan)
12. Joan Sheehy in Moonrise by Aoife Delany Reade (mentored by Mark O’Rowe)

The plays will be directed by Eoghan Carrick, Grace Morgan and Srđa Vasiljević.

The six original writers worked with an electric line-up of new writers whose short plays were selected from a nationwide public call-out. They each were paired with the original writers and received mentorship as they worked on their plays.

Theatre for One was conceived by the Tony and Olivier award-winning Artistic Director, Christine Jones, and designed by LOT-EK architects. Theatre for One: This Ireland is funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.