Donncha O’Caoimh, an old schoolfriend of mine, and his wife Jacinta came to see the ‘Importance of Being Earnest’ last night. Donncha brought a camera, and has put some great shots up on his photography blog ‘InPhotos’.

So despite my originally saying you would have to buy a ticket to see the moustache, you can now see it over at InPhotos.org

Donncha gave us a lovely review, saying:

We spent the whole time either laughing or engrossed in the twists and characters of the plot.

As Donncha points out, the show only runs until Saturday (10th March 2007) which means there’s only three more performances… the number to book tickets is The Cork Arts Theatre 021-4505624.

More details about the show on my previous post.

Chattyboo productions presents Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’, at the Cork Arts Theatre, Cork, Ireland (I seem to be on a roll with Theatre-related posts at the moment).

I mentioned this already, due to the fact that I am in it myself, sporting a wonderful moustache which is worth the ticket price to see in itself (moustache not pictured - you have to buy a ticket to see it).

Directed by Tony Canniffe, ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ has a great cast, it’s been a real pleasure working with them all… here is the cast list (in order of appearance) - Corkonians will no doubt recognise several of the names:

Lane - Alf McCarthy
Algernon Moncrieff - Ian McGuirk
John Worthington JP - Frank Prendergast (me!)
Lady Bracknell - Aine O’Leary
Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax - Angela Newman
Cecily Cardew - Roisin Donovan
Miss Prism - Mary Canniffe
Merriman - Charlie Ruxton
Rev. Canon Chasuble, DD - Jim Queally

If you haven’t been to the Cork Arts Theatre - also known as ‘the CAT Club’, it has been fairly recently completely revamped. There’s a map available on their site.

If you’re wondering about the production company name, Chattyboo, it’s a piece of Cork slang which I had never heard of - but it’s in the official Cork slang dictionary. It means ‘Whatchamacallit’.

This is very late notice, I’ve been so busy that I forgot to post this. This is for those of us based in Cork, Ireland who have either an audience or a participatory interest in Theatre.

Fast Theatre has it’s final outing today in the Triskel Arts Center.

What is Fast Theatre? Well, it’s brought to you by the Theatre Makers Working Actor’s Workshop and is an experiment in improvised theatre.

If you’re like me, you might be wary of terms such as ‘improvisation’, but take it from me it’s essentially a big load of fun. Drop in and see what it’s all about from 3.00pm - 4.30pm at the Triskel Arts Centre, today, Sunday the 4th of March!

You don’t have to know anything about anything to drop in and have a look, it should be of interest both to a general audience and to those involved in the theatre.

Sure what else would you be doing on a Sunday?

Oh and also, admire the Theatre Makers logo because I designed it, and the Fast Theatre Poster.

I would link to a map to get to the Triskel but they have a really annoying Flash site which you can’t easily navigate or link to stuff in… go to their site and click contact, and then click map if you don’t know where it is! See you there!

What an absolutely fantastic poster. Hammergrin is a theatre company based here in Cork, Ireland - co-founded by my friends John McCarthy and Sara Jane Power. Sara Jane also designed this poster which I love… in fact I think it’s the nicest poster I’ve seen in a very long time.

As you can see from the poster, they are having an event called ‘The Threat of Humour’ on Saturday the 10th of March, which will include the premier of John’s film ‘Crying Laughing’.

They also have a play running at the moment called Apocalypse, Then’, in the in the Everyman Palace Studio. Written by Ciaran Fitzpatrick and John McCarthy and directed by Sara Jane Power, it has been getting fairly good reviews in the Irish Times, the Examiner and the Echo, and I’ve also personally heard very good things about the show. I’m hoping to make the matinee at the weekend - it’s on at 6.30pm Friday (2 Mar) and Saturday (3 Mar) with a matinee on Saturday at 3.30 as well. More details on times and tickets here.

There are also rumours that Sara Jane will be directing Cork’s favourite world famous play ‘Disco Pigs’ this summer.

Hammergrin is a company to watch. You heard it here first. Or second if you already knew about their blog.