Corcadorca put the pedal to the metal in Kinsale
THE title of Enda Walsh’s play How These Desperate Men Talk would be a good description of several of his plays, including the recent Ballyturk, which has just opened in the National Theatre in London after a successful Irish tour. Walsh’s characters are compelled, even doomed, to speak: to grasp for meaning through repeated stories, relived memories, rituals of storytelling.
In How These Desperate Men Talk, men are alone, remembering childhood, retelling it and altering its meaning towards an unsettling conclusion. A short two-hander, it was first performed in Zurich in 2004. Its Irish premiere is being staged by Walsh’s long-time collaborators, the Cork company Corcadorca. Director Pat Kiernan first read the play when he was looking for a short two-hander for his students at the Gaiety School of Acting. Though the text is slim, the production won’t be. Kiernan is taking the action to a metal factory in Kinsale, in collaboration with the multi-platform composers and installation artists Eat My Noise to create what he calls “a journey between sound and images”.
