The healing power of singing at the Everyman Theatre

After working with the group Elbow, Cork composer John Browne has now switched his attentions to a play set in the aftermath of a massacre, writes Jo Kerrigan

THE play The Events, which opens at Everyman, in Cork, on Wednesday, is remarkable: it has a score and script that require a different local choir to perform each night. But composer John Browne enjoys the challenge.

A Cork native, Browne trained at the city’s School of Music, and later University College Cork. He now lives in London and his commissions have included choral works for Westminster Abbey, a community cantata at the Southbank Centre, hip-hop opera for the Royal Opera House, a film score for Aardman, a Write-An-Opera course, and choral arrangements for the rock band, Elbow.