Review: Theatre - Gentrification

Corcadorca has the keys to a bank and has milked it for all it’s worth. The company’s latest site specific production, in collaboration with Eat My Noise, takes place in the disused former Cork Savings Bank on Lapp’s Quay. The theme of Enda Walsh’s play, directed by Pat Kiernan, is the resistance of a community to the gentrification of its neighbourhood — and the terrible action it has taken to foment what one of the two characters calls a revolution.

But before the audience encounters the confrontation between the protagonists — Barry (Kieran Ahern), a tightly coiled working class man; and Enda (Evan Lordan), an achingly middle class husband and father of a four-year-old girl — we are taken on a journey around the building.