Five For Your Radar: Mick Flannery, Emma Stone film, book festival...
Mick Flannery and Susan O'Neill play Cork Opera House this weekend; and Swan Lake is at the same venue November 6-8.
The latest film from Yorgos Lanthimos (The Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Lobster), he has reunited with Poor Things star Emma Stone for Bugonia, alongside Jesse Plemons and Alicia Silverstone. The plot is, as you might expect, madcap: Two conspiracy-obsessed men kidnap a powerful CEO believing she is an alien sent to destroy Earth. The men, who are convinced the CEO is responsible for ecological disasters and other global problems, hold her captive and try to force her to reveal her alien origins.
Cork’s Mick Flannery and Clare’s Susan O’Neill last week released a live album focused on their Choice Prize-nominated 2021 album . Having toured extensively at home and abroad — earning praise from the likes of Phoebe Bridgers — the pair return to the Cork Opera House for three shows this weekend, including a Sunday matinee (3pm). They’ll be joined by a full band, with support from Valerie June.
From Ryan Murphy — creator of the likes of and — features a superstar cast including Kim Kardashian (who Murphy worked with on American Horror Story), Glenn Close, and Naomi Watts. It follows a successful divorce lawyer and the owner of an all-female law firm in Los Angeles. The first three episodes of the 10-part series launch on Tuesday.
Running since 2006, Dublin Book Festival is a celebration of Ireland’s writers and publishers. This year’s programme opens with panels on The Art of Writing for a Living — featuring Naoise Dolan, recently involved with the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza — and on sustainability. There’s also a celebration for the 100th issue of , with editor Brendan Barrington and contributors Sara Baume, Patrick Freyne, Doireann Ní Ghríofa and Mark O’Connell in conversation with Rick O’Shea.
Cork City Ballet presents a full-length production of Tchaikovsky’s inimitable masterpiece, laying claim to a legacy that extends back to premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in 1895. Artistic director Alan Foley said: “Unlike the unalloyed tragedy most people cherish, this version ends with a fairytale twist. Chief choreographer Yuri Demakov and I have reproduced the original Petipa/Ivanov choreography where the prince destroys the evil sorcerer Rothbart and is joyfully reunited with the Swan Queen.”
