Theatre review: Cork Midsummer Festival, Neon Western: Prologue, Marina Commercial Park

Meet at midnight near a warehouse on the outskirts of the city? It’s an arrangement that inevitably causes a frisson of excitement.

Theatre review: Cork Midsummer Festival, Neon Western: Prologue, Marina Commercial Park

Then we’re led in through a dimly-lit corridor, camera-phones lighting up designs on the breezeblocks, and sirenesque performers leaning against the walls, chanting with an air of seductive menace. Interest levels rise that bit more. And when we eventually do get inside, the barman character offers free beer. Audience signed, sealed, and delivered!

‘Part rave, part theatre’ is how this collaboration between sound masters Eat My Noise and Conflicted Theatre company is billed, and even without the free drink, it would have won over attendees.

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