Midsummer Moments: Corcadorca Theatre makes 'Contact' in Cork's suburbs
As dusk fell at Clarke’s Road in the Cork suburb of Ballyphehane on a chilly and blustery Thursday night, a scene that might have caused alarm a short few months ago began to unfold. Five men wearing hazmat suits, safety goggles and masks emerged from vans parked at the local green.
Akin to sinister Ghostbusters, they marked and measured out the ground, assembling and erecting a perspex screen, circled by blazing white lights. Such imagery has become part of our cultural vernacular now, and it made for a fitting framework for Corcadorca’s latest live performance, Contact, part of the re-imagined Cork Midsummer Festival.
