New Cork theatre group makes musical debut

New Cork theatre company, Scruffy Duck Productions, stages its debut show, The Last Five Years, at the Stack Theatre in the CIT Cork School of Music this week. The musical is by Tony Award-winning playwright, Jason Robert Brown and runs until Saturday.

Scruffy Duck comprises UCC Dramatic Society members and graduates.

The Last Five Years, starring Sherelle Kelleher and Mark O’Sullivan, is directed by Catherine Gillespie, a music student at UCC. It premiered in Chicago’s Northlight Theatre in 2001 and was produced Off Broadway. A film adaptation, to star Anna Kendrick, has been confirmed.