Five For Your Radar: Dermot Kennedy, Knives Out, Maeve Higgins...
Dermot Kennedy plays St James' in Dingle as part of Other Voices 2025; right, the cast of Cinderella get ready for their panto stint at the Everyman this Christmas.
All roads lead to west Kerry this weekend for the latest installment of the winter-warming Other Voices. The names playing St James’ Church, who you’ll be seeing on TV next year — or streaming live via Other Voices’ YouTube page — include Dermot Kennedy, Shame, Amble, Florence Road, and Chalk.
The IMRO music trail around town, meanwhile, is a who’s who of new acts to keep an eye on, such as Babyrat, Essiray, and Madra Salach.
The world-renowned, Turner Prize-nominated artist Sean Scully marks his 80th year with Tapestry, a new exhibition bringing together four distinct bodies of work, each rooted in a deep engagement with the emotional potential of abstraction.
Bringing together recent pencil works, hand-woven tapestries created with Mourne Textiles, powerful new paintings from his Stack series, and intimate oil-on-copper pieces, the exhibition highlights the way drawing functions as a foundational structure in Scully’s work.
Daniel Craig returns as Benoit Blanc in the third installment of the Knives Out franchise. It's getting a limited release in cinemas before hitting Netflix on December 12. Craig is joined by an all-star cast headed by Josh O'Connor, Glenn Close, and Josh Brolin.
A murder in a church represents Blanc's "most dangerous case yet", with director Rian Johnson reportedly modelling the film on the locked-room mystery subgenre of crime fiction. It will be available on Netflix on December 12.
Directed by Cork’s queen of panto Catherine Mahon-Buckley and presented in association with CADA Performing Arts, this glittering production of Cinderella promises a fresh, fabulous twist on the timeless fairytale. The cast of last year’s sold-out run of Red Riding Hood returns, while young and old can expect all the beloved panto ingredients — laughter, music, and magic — along with dazzling costumes, outrageous fun, and a fairy godmother with more flair than ever before.
A series of events and fundraisers will take place throughout West Cork this weekend under the umbrella title of ‘West Cork For Gaza’. De Barra’s are hosting a plethora of acts from midday till last call, including authors Louise O’Neill and Maeve Higgins.
Beloved local stars like Setmaker and the Céilí All-Stars feature, while the big attractions include Mick Flannery, Susan O’Neill, and comedian David O’Doherty. All proceeds will be donated to Tea Collective.
