Theatre review: Winter Journey sparks adventure through Shandon for Cork Midsummer Festival

The event was staggered across nine different venues in the historic northside neighbourhood.

Winter Journey at Cork Midsummer Festival. Picture: Celeste Burdon

★★★★☆

Threatening black clouds hung over Shandon as people gathered for Winter Journey, the Cork Midsummer Festival reinterpretation of Schubert’s Winterreisse. The famous song-cycle for voice and piano, based on the poems of Wilhelm Müller, is an existential cry of despair from a heartbroken young man travelling through a wintery landscape.