A group of actors hoping to make Cork the landscape for their upcoming feature film have raised more than €11,000 in financial backing through crowd-funding.

A PLAY about a teenage drug addict, based on a true story, opens at the Half Moon Theatre on November 7 as part of Drugs Awareness Week. Cracking Lives is the brainchild of Corkwoman Alma Kickham, whose son succumbed to addiction in his teens.

ON Friday, March 5, I attended a charity event at the Cork Arts Theatre, Carroll’s Quay, organised by Alma Kickham, actress and teacher with CADA Performing Arts Academy, in aid of Haiti.