Looking back at Corcadorca's influence on theatre in Cork and beyond

As Corcadorca marks 25 years of great theatre in Cork, Pat Kiernan and Enda Walsh tell Alan O’Riordan about the early days, Disco Pigs and what’s happened since

PAT KIERNAN is a forward-looking kind of guy. As the artistic director of Corcadorca theatre company, he has to be. It’s always about planning the next show, he says, and “every time you go into it, your’e going into something for the first time. There’s always the same anxiety, the same excitement”.

The next “next show” is Sacrifice at Easter, a work in collaboration with Pat McCabe and Mel Mercier that will take an eclectic look across the last 100 years, using the present centenary as its starting point.