Award-winning site specific theatre company Corcadorca return to Cork Midsummer Festival with The Small Things by Enda Walsh, to be performed at the Old Waterworks, Lee Road. Starring Peter Gowen and Pauline McLynn, and directed by Pat Kiernan, the design team includes Set and Lighting Designer Paul Keogan and Composer and Sound Designer Mel Mercier
‘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. I am beyond excited that Corcadorca and the genius, Pat Kiernan, are taking it on –
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