Perforum Presents Roderick Ford - Weds 1st March

20 Feb 2023

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. 

Roderick Ford - The Poetics of Otherness

1st March 2023

2:15 in the Granary Theatre 

Roderick Ford is an autistic poet with many awards and shortlistings, two collections, and a poem on the UK National Curriculum since 2015.  His work is concerned with otherness, othering and life subsumed in another neurological order. 

His magic-realist play Daughter of God will be produced at The Granary Theatre in the second week of March.  In the play, Yulia, a single mother, has three daughters two of whom are disabled: one has crippled legs, the other is brain-damaged and kept in a cage.  In the world outside their flat, an emergent fascist state is brutally "cleansing" disabled people from society... 

For this event, Roderick will be joined by cast member, Eleanor Walsh for a conversation with Jody O’Neill. Among other things, they will discuss their our individual approaches as autistic people to writing and performing for theatre in a neurotypical world. 

Eleanor Walsh is a performer, writer, storyteller, and an autism and disability advocate. Recent credits include Yellow (Jody O'Neill), The Amanda (Saoirse) Show (Scream for Ireland), What I (Don't) Know About Autism (Abbey Theatre), Home: Part One (Abbey Theatre), and Dear Ireland: Part One (These Four Walls by Sinéad Burke) (Abbey Theatre). Eleanor is featured in "Be Inspired! Young Irish People Changing the World" by Sarah Webb, published by O'Brien Press. 

Note:

Daughter of God next week (8-11th March) in the Granary Theatre - https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/asylum-productions-present-daughter-of-god-tickets-531876887087

Neurofestivity - An Exploration and Celebration of Neurodiverse Art - https://www.corkoperahouse.ie/

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