The Everyman

Comrade
By Bob Kelly
Directed by Pat Kiernan
Sat 20 Jun, 1pm
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Ireland and Russia. Michael Collins and the Romanovs. The last days of an old country and a state about to begin. Comrade is a moving and intimate play about friendship, loyalty and the personal cost of revolution.

Bob Kelly is an actor and theatre-maker from the west of Ireland. Trained at the Ecole Internationale de Jacques Lecoq in Paris, he has written for Landmark Productions (Breakfast on Pluto), for Blue Raincoat (Tintown, The Rallying Call, Footfalls) and for Hawk’s Well Theatre (The Big Wall).

Pat Kiernan founded Corcadorca in 1991, a Cork-based theatre company celebrated for their large-scale and site-specific productions, as well as the seminal Disco Pigs in 1996.

CAST
Cara Christie, Darragh Shannon, Kwaku Fortune, Martha Dunlea and Orla Scally

One of three up-close readings on The Everyman forestage – Everyman Up Front, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival.

With a reputation for being a "shock merchant" in British theatre – "[his play] 'Shopping and F**king' depicted graphic s*x, violence and vulgar materialism among drug addicts, dealers and...rent boys, all pointedly named after the members of the boy band Take That", playwright Mark Ravenhill's work is full of "wit and rage."

Despite this, he says in this illuminating 2014 Irish Times article:

"I have a desperate need to be liked and to please. As well as some sort of pathological urge to provoke. Maybe it's two sides of the same coin."

We're proud to be staging a production of Mark's newer, savagely sublime work, Pool (No Water) – for the first time in an empty swimming pool here in Cork. Opening night is Wednesday!

Read the full article:

Pool (No Water) stars:

Evanna Lynch
Jacob McCarthy
Liv O’Donoghue
Rowan Finken

Creative Team:

Playwright: Mark Ravenhill
Director: Des Kennedy
Movement: Luke Murphy
Designer: Sabine Dargent
Lighting Designer: Zia Bergin Holly
Composer and Sound Designer: Peter Power
Costume Designer: Valentina Gambardella
Casting Director: Sarah Jones

‘The Westbury is more representative of my life than an alleyway strewn with needles’ Mark Ravenhill says he has a ‘desperate need to be liked’, but when it comes to provocation the playwright can’t seem to help himself