Launch of Cork’s World Theatre Publication
12.01.2012
The published text of Cork's World Theatre, a play about ecological apocalypse as it might manifest itself in Cork and which was performed under the direction of Peadar Donohoe (of Cyclone Repertory Company) in UCC's Aula Maxima in November/December 2010, is being launched in the university next Monday, January 16th, in the presence of the Swiss Ambassador, HE Beat Loeliger.

The play is a translation/adaptation by Stephen Boyd and Dr Manfred Schewe (Departments of Hispanic Studies and German, UCC) of a German-language original by the distinguished Swiss dramatist, Thomas Hürlimann. Performances of Hürlimann's play, based in turn on a famous 17th-century Spanish text, took place in the open air over the summer months of 2007 in the Swiss pilgrimage town of Einsiedeln, and were seen by some 66,000 people. The launch will take place in the O'Rahilly Building (Room G27b, Ground Floor) at 5pm. All are welcome. A short film tracing the development of the Cork's World Theatre Project will be shown.

Picture: Mairín Prendergast as THE WORLD in Cork’s World Theatre. Photograph by Stephan Koch.

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