Emer Dineen on warm memories of her father, and bringing 0800 Cupid to Cork

Dineen's highly-rated show is produced by ThisIsPopBaby, and promises to be one of the highlights of Cork Midsummer Festival 

Emer Dineen brings 0800 Cupid to her hometown of Cork for the first time as part of the city's Midsummer Festival. 

For Emer Dineen, bringing her critically-acclaimed show 0800 Cupid to Cork will be an experience freighted with meaning and emotion. The production from Dublin theatre company ThisIsPopBaby, an exhilarating blend of live music and theatre which charts a tumultuous year in Dineen’s life in London, received a rapturous reception at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2024. 

One of the themes of the show is the unseen care that young people provide for their parents, a subject with which Dineen is painfully familiar — her father Peter had dementia and passed away in April. The show, which comes to the Everyman Theatre as part of the Cork Midsummer Festival, is described as a love letter to her dad and is dedicated to his memory.