Something for Everyman at the theatre as summer schedule launched

The historic Everyman Theatre in Cork recorded a €462,000 increase in turnover last year, it emerged last night, as details of its new summer season were unveiled.

The theatre’s artistic director, Julie Kelleher, will also make her directorial debut during the new season, directing a production of Brian Friel’s Lovers — one of several major live theatre productions the venue will stage in the coming months.

Other headline acts include a performance by American humorist and best-selling author David Sedaris; the Rubberbandits; the Banff Mountain Film Festival; and the premiere of Macroom, an imagining of the last day of Michael Collins, written by Scottish writer, Ian Pattison, the man behind the BBC sitcom Rab C Nesbitt.