Conal Creedon on bringing his Second City Trilogy back home for a Cork broadcast 

The Cork writer was born and raised near the Everyman theatre, a venue that has included three of his plays in a series of rehearsed readings available to the public 

Conal Creedon and his dog outside the Everyman in Cork. 

The Everyman Theatre has a special place in my heart. Known locally as the Palace, this majestic old Victorian playhouse continues to be at the cutting edge of live entertainment in the city ever since the curtain first went up back in the late 1800s. With its red velvet seats sweeping down from the gods, baroque stucco ceiling, ornate brocade boxes, we are invited to leave reality and rain at the door and enter into this magical world of suspended disbelief.

Located a few doors up the street from where my family has lived and traded for over a century, the Everyman has always been part of my life. I sometimes joke that I can make my way from my fireside couch at home and be seated in the theatre in less time than it takes the actors to get from the dressing room to the stage. So, it put a pep in my step to see my play up in lights on the portico last November.