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CORK MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL FEATURE: "CONTACT" with Director Pat Kiernan

Conor Tallon spoke to Corcadorca Director Pat Kiernan about CONTACT

A travelling theatre performance

 

Presented by Corcadorca and Cork Midsummer Festival

with support from The Arts Council, Cork City Council and the Creative Ireland Programme

 

Date: 11-14 June, 18-21 June 2020

Various locations around Cork City

 

  

 

Contact, a highly visual performance starring Eadaoin O’Donoghue and Cormac Mohally, directed by Pat Kiernan, will be brought to multiple locations, where the local residents can experience a live performance that artistically reflects our new reality and the universally shared current challenges around human contact.

 

Through physical theatre techniques and exaggerated props, this short non-verbal performance will convey an exchange that reflects the struggles with the current curtailment of our social interactions. The piece will be lit dramatically and the assembly and dismantling of the set will also be choreographed to form part of the overall performance. 

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