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Said The Dead
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
In this visceral reimagining of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Emily Terndrup fuses explosive choreography and razor-sharp storytelling into a fierce, funny and fearless meditation on creation and consequence.
Part gothic horror, part personal reckoning, Offspring is a pulse-racing collision of theatre and dance that grabs its audience by the throat and the heart. At its centre is a woman in her mid-to-late 30s, grappling with desire and dread as she contemplates the closing window to biological creation.
Offspring is riotously funny, breathtakingly physical and unexpectedly devastating.
As she plunges into the chaos, the beauty and the terror of creation, the performance becomes the monster itself: volatile, tender, contradictory and profoundly human.
Created and performed by Emily Terndrup, Offspring was a triple award-winner at the Dublin Fringe Festival 2025, taking Best Performer, Best Design, and Radical Spirit of the Fringe. It was named Best Production and Best Dance Production of 2025 by The Arts Review.
Darkly funny and disarmingly tender, Terndrup’s work is bold, intelligent and utterly original. Offspring guarantees to spark questions long after the final breath.
Best Performer and Best Design, Dublin Fringe Festival 2025
Best Production 2025, The Arts Review
"In Offspring, everything is touched by genius"The Arts Review
"Mixes an easy-going presence with expressive physicality and on-the-beat comic timing"The Irish Times
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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
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A city-wide trail of child-only play pods and cosy dens scattered across Cork City.
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Readings of bold new plays on The Everyman forestage.
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Cork Theatre Collective, in collaboration with Cork Midsummer Festival, throws open the doors to the next wave of theatre-makers.
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