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Theatre For One:
MADE IN CORK

Cork Midsummer Festival
June 14, 15, 17 - 22, 2025
Emmett Place

produced by LANDMARK PRODUCTIONS and OCTOPUS THEATRICALS

The iconic Theatre for One booth returns to Emmet Place as part of Cork Midsummer Festival, with a very special instalment for 2025.

Part confessional, part peep-show booth - these 5 minute plays are performed by one actor for one audience member at a time.

Step inside for an experience that is completely visceral and uniquely intimate.

This year focuses on the voices and stories of Cork. Theatre for One: Made in Cork features new short plays by six hugely exciting writers - Cónal Creedan, Katie Holly, John McCarthy, Michael John McCarthy, Gina Moxley and Louise O’Neill.

Conceived and created by the Olivier and Tony Award- winning theatre-maker Christine Jones, and constructed by LOT-EK architects, each original 5-minute play is written specifically for this format. This is a specially-designed, state-of-the-art theatre for two: one actor and one audience member.

Writers Cónal Creedan, Katie Holly, John McCarthy, Michael John McCarthy, Gina Moxley, Louise O’Neill
Directors Julie Kelleher & Eoghan Carrick

Free of charge – no tickets required – just join the queue.

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PRESS

★★★★★

“The brilliance of these shows lies in their containment. The five minutes of each episode is long enough to remember Hamlet, prince of Denmark, who could be “bounded in a nutshell” and count himself a king of infinite space. Theatre for One offers the nutshell, and the space.”

–IRISH TIMES

★★★★★

”What is initially a discomfiting intimacy ends up being exhilarating; in an increasingly atomised world, one is reminded of the eternal truth of EM Forster’s famous epigraph: Only Connect.”

—IRISH EXAMINER

★★★★★

“Nothing else comes close.”

–THE ARTS REVIEW

Now Playing

Theatre For One: MADE IN CORK

Cork Midsummer FestivalJune 14, 15, 17 - 22, 2025Emmett Place

produced by LANDMARK PRODUCTIONS and OCTOPUS THEATRICALS

The iconic Theatre for One booth returns to Emmet Place as part of Cork Midsummer Festival, with a very special instalment for 2025.

Part confessional, part peep-show booth - these 5 minute plays are performed by one actor for one audience member at a time.Step inside for an experience that is completely visceral and uniquely intimate.

Free of charge – no tickets required – just join the queue.

PRESS

★★★★★

“The brilliance of these shows lies in their containment. The five minutes of each episode is long enough to remember Hamlet, prince of Denmark, who could be “bounded in a nutshell” and count himself a king of infinite space. Theatre for One offers the nutshell, and the space.”

–IRISH TIMES

★★★★★”What is initially a discomfiting intimacy ends up being exhilarating; in an increasingly atomised world, one is reminded of the eternal truth of EM Forster’s famous epigraph: Only Connect.”

—IRISH EXAMINER

★★★★★

“Nothing else comes close.”

–THE ARTS REVIEW

Theatre For One:
MADE IN CORK

Cork Midsummer Festival
June 14, 15, 17 - 22, 2025
Emmett Place

Part confessional, part peep-show booth - these 5 minute plays are performed by one actor for one audience member at a time.

Step inside for an experience that is completely visceral and uniquely intimate.

★★★★★

”What is initially a discomfiting intimacy ends up being exhilarating; in an increasingly atomised world, one is reminded of the eternal truth of EM Forster’s famous epigraph: Only Connect.”