Marcus Bale provides an invaluable service to the theatre community in Cork, sending email bulletins with news of events, auditions and workshops to anyone who wishes to receive it.

You might recognise Marcus from Snatch Comedy, or from the many plays he has been involved in - he is himself a wonderful actor.

Anyway, I’m very excited to let you know that Marcus has joined BifSniff.com and will be posting his Theatre bulletins on a regular basis here as well as sending out his usual email.

Don’t forget you can see just the posts Marcus publishes if you like, by going to http://bifsniff.com/author/marcus/ or you can subscribe to the feed for just his posts by going here: http://bifsniff.com/author/marcus/feed/.

So welcome marcus, and thank you for taking the time to let us all know what’s going on in theatre in Cork!

Dear Fellow Actors & Actresses,

Here are a couple of interesting pieces of information came up in the last couple of days, so here is a bulletin for you. If you think
there’s people who’d like to get this information, please let them know about this page.

Best of luck,

Marcus

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Dear Friends,

These two weeks have been so full of events and interesting activities!! Here you have a Bulletin with lots of events which you might find interesting. As usual, if you think there’s people who’d like to read this information, please let them know about this webpage.

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A chilling tale of love death and despair in rural Ireland over a forty year period.

Opening TODAY (Monday the 25th), and running until Saturday: ‘They never Froze Walt Disney’ by Jody O’Neill.

I think, and hope, that this might prove to be a show everyone will be talking about at the Cork Midsummer Festival. I think that because I read the script a couple of weeks ago and I thought it was fucking brilliant.

Funny and poignant, dark and yet light hearted, the writing is really tight and the story unfolds beautifully. Also the two performers (Jody O’Neill and John McCarthy) are excellent actors, and though I personally haven’t seen Jack Healy direct before he is extremely well known in the Cork theatre scene, and I have a lot of respect for him from acting with him and attending his workshops.

And I hope it will be a show everyone talks about because I know Jack, Jody and John very well and I know they deserve for this play to be a huge success. And it’s stage managed by our very own Eoin!

According to the Theatermaker’s website this is “A compelling, witty and often moving piece, ‘They Never Froze Walt Disney’ flashes between the early stages of Marie and Paudie’s relationship and the unusual circumstances under which they encounter one another again, many years later”.

I highly recommend going to see this show - I have already booked for two performances! Oh, and I designed the poster
(above) and programme.

Lunchtime Theatre

They never Froze Walt Disney. by Jody O’Neill.
Unitarian Church. (Beside English Market) Princes St. at 1pm. (Running Time 45 mins approx)
June 25th - 30th.

Book now: Midsummer Festival Box Office (021) 4274077 or online at festivalbooking.net

Meat opens tonight in the Granary Theatre and it should be a great show. Written by Neil O’Sullivan and directed by Donal Gallagher it stars Mark O’Brien, Gerrie O’Grady and Cormac Costello.

Meat promises to be “A spine chilling, gothic tale of sex and death (though not necessarily in that order).”

It looks to be a kind of Jack-the-Ripper-esque farce thriller drama. Or something. Fun, no doubt anyway.

Asylum productions were also responsible for:

Bedbound
“completely brilliant�
The Irish Times

And

Pondlife Angels
“…always engaging and often
superb…flawless control�
Fintan O’Toole

Meat is on at the Granary Theatre (on the Mardyke) 21st - 30th June at 7:30pm

Book now: Midsummer Festival Box Office (021) 4274077 or online at festivalbooking.net

Oh and I designed the poster and programme