Theatre review: Up close and personal with Theatre for One at Cork Midsummer Festival

Theatre for One is an exhilarating half-hour experience

Theatre for One continues at Emmet Place until Jun 23. Picture: Clare Keogh

★★★★★

Theatre for One was a big hit with audiences when it premiered at Cork Midsummer Festival in 2019, and it makes a welcome return this year with 12 specially commissioned five-minute pieces performed in a confessional-style booth outside Cork Opera House. The same six writers feature in this staging by Landmark Productions and Octopus Theatricals — Marina Carr, Stacey Gregg, Emmet Kirwan, Louise Lowe, Mark O’Rowe and Enda Walsh — but this time around they are joined by six new writers who they have mentored — Iseult Deane, Susannah Al Fraihat, Aoibhéann McCann, Joy Nesbitt, Ois O’Donoghue and Aoife Delany Reade.