This brilliant collaboration returns to present their fascination with the work of deaf writer Teresa Deevy, adapting one of her most enduring radio plays in this centennial year of Radio Éireann.
"Leave your mind free to follow my words", Deevy’s 1939 play, invites us to follow her to an unseen world. In Dignity, we invite you to experience another invisible world, as you follow our bodies as they reveal what happened out of sight, learning to fit into the world of sound.
We, as Deevy, had to ‘listen differently’. We watch and sign – resilient and rebellious – and leave your mind free to follow our visual world, growing increasingly captivated by her work and its transformation into ISL.
Performed in Irish Sign Language, this production brings professional and community artists together to champion the choreographic power of Sign Language. The company has previously presented Ode to Joy and Possession at Cork Midsummer Festival. For Coogan, one of Ireland’s foremost performance artists, Sign Language is a touchstone. Born hearing to deaf parents, this visual and manual upbringing deeply informs her practice. She explores contested sites and minority narratives, distilling these into urgent contemporary performances.
These works stand at the forefront of some of the most exciting collaborative performances with marginalised communities.
Funded by the Arts Council, Cork City Council Artist and the Community Award and Dublin City Council.
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Visual Art
Commissioned by The Glucksman in partnership with Cork Midsummer, an casadh (the turn) is a bio-sculptural installation and live performance exploring ideas of kinship, ritual and nourishment.
Free
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Participation / Early Years
An immersive and interactive sound installation for our youngest ears. Inviting children into a world filled with living recorded sounds of nature.
Free
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Theatre
This is a true story. It’s a few summers ago and a Maltese producer invites Sh!t Theatre out to her island paradise for Valletta European Capital of Culture...
€22 / €18
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Music / Literature
A live reading and music performance on the site at the heart of Ní Ghríofa’s new book, Said the Dead.
€18 / €15