UCC is delighted to present the Spring 2023 Perforum Series, curated by UCC and Cork Opera House Theatre Artist-in-Residence, Jody O’Neill. The season will explore creating theatre and dance through the lens of disability. 

Rhona Coughlan: Conversations about disability and dance

25th of January 2023

2:15 in the Granary Theatre 

Weds 25th January 2.15pm @ Granary Theatre: Rhona Coughlan/Conversations about disability and dance

Weds 1st March 2:15pm @ Granary Theatre: Roderick Ford / The Poetics of Otherness

Weds 29th March 2:15pm @ Granary Theatre: Rosaleen McDonagh/ “Disability light” “Disability reality” 

Doireann O’Malley / Conversations On A Crosstown Algorithm   

Wed 14^th Dec / 2.15pm @ Granary Theatre  

Screening / Artist Talk

Doireann O’Malley & collaborators Bertrand Flanet and Lugh O'Neil

Picture the Audience Naked is a sharing of new work in progress created by MA and BA students in the Department of Theatre, University College Cork. Students across a range of modules will share their work together in the Granary Theatre. 

The sharing run over two nights and starts at 8pm - Wednesday 30th Nov and Thurs 1st Dec - with different work presented each night.

Modules presenting work include First Year Introduction to Practice, Final Year Special Studies in Theatre Practice and MA Advanced Theatre Practice. The sharing is supported by Second Year Performance Technologies: Explorations. 

Tickets are free but must be booked via Eventbrite - Book here

Trigger Warning: 

A wide range of themes are explored including bullying, racism, psychological and physical violence, etc. 

Jody O'Neill the UCC-COH Theatre Artist in Residence will be doing a free performance of her new show 'Yellow' on Thursday, 8th Dec at 2pm in the Granary Theatre. 

Our Perforum Series is back for a third installment! On Weds 9th Nov we welcome Professor Jools Gilson to Granary Theatre at 2:15pm to discuss:

Tempestries: The Cloonshannagh Bog Body, Textiles & Somatic Research

UCC CREATIVE & UCC Environmental Research Institute

DANCE ARTIST / PLANT SCIENCE RESIDENCIES

Glenkeen Gardens, West Cork

2022-23

UCC's School of Film, Music and Theatre with Cork Opera House are delighted to announce the MRes Studentship recipient Angela O'Callaghan - The Studentship is one of the four pillars of the COH-UCC collaboration. We are excited to see angelas research develop over the coming months strengthening the Cork Opera House - Universit College Cork connection. 

Supporting Inclusion in Youth Theatre

Learning from Practice

18th and 19th Nov 2022 

University College Cork