Cork Midsummer Festival opens tomorrow!Thursday 19th – Monday 23rd June 2014

19th June 2014

Bringing colour to Cork this June, the Cork Midsummer Festival will take over the city with Cork City Council’s hugely popular Picnic in the Park bringing Fitzgerald’s Park to life on Sunday 22nd, as well as spectactular new circus performances over the weekend in Elizabeth Fort – dazzling fire and circus show Inferno from PassePartout Circus, and Fortissimo, a large scale aerial dance and circus performance from Cork Circus Factory.

Celebrating the diverse venues across Cork, the Festival are delighted to include the Everyman Theatre’s production of opera Der Vampyr as part of the programme. Reuniting the award-winning directing duo of Michael Barker-Caven and John O'Brien the spectacle promises to transform the Everyman into a witches’ coven of blood-curdling intrigue. Laughter will be ringing out from Half Moon Theatre at Cork Opera House with the Lords of Strut amazing new feat of physical comedy, Chaos; and Granary Theatre will present Jean Genet’s classic Playing the Maids before it embarks on an international tour.

Premieres of exciting new work from established and emerging artists will continue with Laura Murphy’s A Dance Concerto in Cork City Hall and Donovan/Hindi/Walsh’s Murder Dance in Firkin Crane.

Midsummer @ Cork City Council, a programme of work at Cork City Hall, will showcase a variety of different artforms for all ages including Cloud, an interactive theatrical experience for the very young (0-5 years old) and This Is Me, an exhibition of artworks from children under 5 years, representing the children’s sense of identity and belonging in Cork City.

Throughout the Festival there will be also music in the Pavilion and Cypress Avenue; a showcase of the cinema of Scotland in Triskel Christchurch and though-provoking exhibitions in the Crawford Art Gallery, Triskel Arts Centre, CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery and Louis Glucksman Gallery, providing a multi sensory experience to take you from morning through to night celebrating the magic of Midsummer.

Cork Midsummer Festival would like to thank its funders The Arts Council, Cork City Council and Failte Ireland and media partners The Irish Examiner, 96FM and C103.

www.corkmidsummer.com

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