Theatre
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Fidget Feet: Taking to the Skies
Fidget Feet dance company heads to Cork on the 23rd, bringing with them a double-header of aerial dance shows. Mike McGrath-Bryan speaks with dancer and creative director Chantal McCormack Daly. Pursuing a labour of love is a tough business, as any creative or media individual will tell you. It is quite something else, then, to…
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Celtic Championship Wrestling: Running the Ropes
Four years old and growing exponentially, Celtic Championship Wrestling has overcome the odds to find a regular hometown audience among Cork city’s fight fans. Mike McGrath-Bryan speaks with promoter/performer Lee Cahalane about the ring, the business, and the fans. “The virtue of all-in wrestling is that it is the spectacle of excess. Here we…
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Painted Bird Theatre: Toil and Trouble
As Painted Bird Theatre gets ready to present ‘Toilers’, Mike McGrath-Bryan speaks with the company’s Thomas Conway about its muses, and the weight of history. At the outset of the state’s history, and thus that of the narrative surrounding arts in Ireland, for better or worse, dozens of great female playwrights and novelists proliferated through…
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