From Cork to Casement

EIGHTY per cent of everything was on a boat before it was here, which is something that nobody really remembers.”

Theatre developer and director Eszter Némethi is explaining the reason why her company’s new play, Utopia Ltd, is being staged in Cork Boat Club in Blackrock.

“The port is the vehicle somehow, or the backdrop,” says Némethi, who is Hungarian, but moved to Ireland in 2005 and volunteered for Cork’s Capital of Culture before studying at UCC. “It’s really how we are connected, because everything comes to us from somewhere. And that’s also an undercurrent that runs underneath the story of Roger Casement: trade, boats, the movement of things and people.”