Corcadorca

Producing exciting theatre
in unusual locations

Next production:

The Small Things by Enda Walsh 17-29 June

starring Pauline McLynn and Peter Gowen.
Directed by Pat Kiernan as part of Cork Midsummer Festival.
Venue: Old Cork Waterworks.
Booking on corkmidsummer.com, by phone on 021-421 5159 or at the festival box office on Cook Street.

Two houses, each perched on a mountain top, stare at each other across a deep valley. Prompted by their alarm clocks, a man and a woman talk about the small things – parquet floor zigzagging down corridors, the memory of mother’s breasts, brown sauce and soggy chips. But these minutiae disguise a bigger story of brutality and unfaltering loyalty which emerges horrifically through the chit chat.

The Small Things was first performed by Paines Plough as part of the ‘This Other England’ season at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London, in January 2005.

We are delighted to be presenting The Small Things by Enda Walsh to our audience in Cork. Corcadorca enjoys a long standing relationship with the playwright, who was co-artistic Director of the company (along with founder member Pat Kiernan) in the early nineties.

Of the play, Walsh says, “I have no memory of writing The Small Things. I knew I wanted to write about my then living mother trying to keep my dead father alive – by talking to him. But what came out was very surprising and like other plays I have written – I got out of the way of it. It became a love story about survival in a violent world and a celebration of the small things we cling to. It is also an ode to language, to talking. It is still my favourite play of those I have written. It is imagistically the largest and was the start of my obsession with play structure.”

Corcadorca’s 25 year anniversary website maps all our site- specific show locations to date and includes interviews with some of the cast and other artists who have worked on Corcadorca productions over years.