Theatre review: Sacrifice at Easter, Elizabeth Fort, Cork

Corcadorca has really pushed the boat out in this, the Cork-based company’s 25th year, by staging an ambitious site-specific production at Elizabeth Fort of a play written by Patrick McCabe, with collaboration from the company’s artistic director, Pat Kiernan and composer Mel Mercier.

Episodic rather than having a linear narrative, it sits well in the Barrack Street site that played a role in the War of Independence and has history going back to the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland. It’s a huge site that gets wrapped in sound, including De Valera’s cosy homestead speech and a sometimes ominous score from Mercier.