Anaïs Mitchell: 'I have a sense of Cork as an alive, creative city'
Anaïs Mitchell plays in Cork and Dublin. Picture: Jay Sansone
Anaïs Mitchell has a far more intimate knowledge of Cork than the average touring American musician. She’s played the city previously and has worked with Mary Hickson, the creative producer who has a long-standing artistic connection to Bryce Dessner of The National and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon (and who programmes Cork’s Songs From A Safe Harbour festival).
“I am a huge Enda Walsh fan," says Mitchell of the Irish playwright who made his breakthrough with Disco Pigs, set in Cork. "I discovered Enda because when I was studying musicals to work on Hadestown [her hugely-successful musical]. I went to see Once on Broadway. I loved the book of that musical that he wrote. I thought it was such a brilliant adaptation. The movie was great. But the musical was this whole other animal that he beautifully brought to life.
