Two events revealed for Cork Midsummer Festival 2024
Good Sex. Picture: Ste Murray
Cork Midsummer Festival has announced two productions which will feature in its summer 2024 programme.
Good Sex by theatre makers Dead Centre with writer Emilie Pine will run at the Everyman from June 20 to 23, with tickets costing €27 (€22 concession). In this production, two brand new actors, teased as some of the best actors in the country, will try to answer a question each night: How do you have sex on stage?
They will not have rehearsed or even read the script, but an Intimacy Director will help and guide them. The show premiered in 2022 as part of Dublin Theatre Festival.
Night Dances by choreographer Emma Martin / United Fall is a performance of dance and live music and will run from June 13 to 15 June at the Marina Market). It is described as a celebration of dance culture and a sweaty love letter to dance in all its forms.
Tickets will cost €24 (€20 concession). This is the third year Midsummer will turn the warehouse at Marina Market into a venue for dance.
Both companies are presenting in Cork for the first time as part of the Midsummer programme.
Tickets for both productions are on sale now at corkmidsummer.com, with limited €10 early bird tickets available for both.
Cork Midsummer Festival runs from June 12 to 23 and the full programme will be launched in May. Previously announced for the 2024 festival is Cork Proms, which will bring together some of Cork and Ireland’s finest musicians and performers alongside the Cork Opera House Concert Orchestra.
It will feature three programmes of music: Heyday - A Mixtape of Irish Rock (June 12 and 13), New World Symphony and Rhapsody in Blue (June 16), and There's No Place Like Home (June 19 & 20).
Theatre for One will also return to the festival. it will see six emerging writers create original five-minute plays for a theatre booth designed for one actor and one audience member at a time.
