A Stitch in summertime: Shandon Street shop to host one of Irene Kelleher’s plays 

Irene Kelleher is going site-specific for one of her two shows in Cork Midsummer Festival, writes Colette Sheridan

Irene Kelleher will perform her stitch show at the former J Nolan Stationery shop on Shandon St, Cork, as part of the city's Midsummer Festival. 

Cork writer and actor Irene Kelleher has two one-woman shows at the Cork Midsummer Festival (CMF) in June. One of them is site-specific, taking place in an old shop on Shandon Street.

The former J Nolan Stationery shop felt perfect for Kelleher’s show, Stitch, which she describes as “haunting". The play is set in a garment alteration shop in 1989. Pins and Needles, as it is called, is about to close down and be taken over by Xtravision.