Five for your Radar: Lyra's homecoming gig, Cork theatre, and a Stephen King remake
Lyra plays Cork City Hall on Friday night; right, The Running Man is in cinemas this weekend.
Bandon’s finest Lyra makes a triumphant homecoming to Cork on Friday night as part of a national tour that will conclude in Dublin next month. In front of what’s likely to be a real mix of young and old in the crowd, expect to hear among some new songs from an album due out in 2026 - “fingers crossed”, she told - as well as the hits that have helped make her a star over the last decade.
In a near-future society, is the top-rated show on television. It’s a deadly competition where contestants, known as Runners, must survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins, with every move broadcast to a bloodthirsty public. It’s a remake of a 1987 film - originally adapted from a Stephen King novel - that starred Arnold Schwarzaneggar. Glen Powell, fresh from his starring role in the six-part comedy on Disney+, is in the lead role while Edgar Wright directs.
Brokentalkers presents , created with and inspired by people who have lived through psychosis. Written by Feidlim Cannon and directed by Gary Keegan, it weaves images, memories and stories of startling clarity together with movement, music and arresting visual imagery to create a performance that attempts the impossible – to make the invisible visible and the unspeakable speak. A talk takes place following the performance.
The sixth edition of Quiet Lights, like a more gentle Other Voices that takes place across Cork city, kicks off with two shows on Thursday. Fiddle player Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh plays Coughlan’s, off the back of a great new collaborative album with Seán Mac Erlaine entitled . Meanwhile, Triskel Christchurch will play host to Niall ‘Bressie’ Breslin, who recently released a gentle solo album that points at a more introspective direction, .
A six-part series adapted from Nick Cave’s novel of the same name, Matt Smith stars as womanising salesman Bunny Munro, who, after his wife’s suicide, takes his young son on a chaotic door-to-door road trip. As Bunny starts to unravel, he realises he must do something to rescue his son from his own outdated notions of what it is to be a man; to save him from becoming another Bunny Munro. The series was written by Bafta winner Pete Jackson ( ), while Nick composed the score alongside long-time collaborator Warren Ellis.
