Venues

Granary Theatre

OVERVIEW

Address

Mardyke, Cork, Co. Cork

Email

info@granary.ie

Website

http://granary.ie

Phone

+ 353 (0)21 490 4275

Artistic Director

Tony McCleane-Fay

Technical Manager

Steve Neale

Box Office Phone

+ 353 (0)21 490 4275

Programming Policy

A small-scale black box venue presenting in-house, local and touring productions and innovative new work, the Granary is also the central venue for the Cork Fringe Festival.
Granary produces and presents new and experimental work by artists across disciplines. The programme combines work in theatre, performance, dance, live art, installation, and music, with a lively critical programme of PERFORUM talks, workshops and artists’ presentations.
Granary is situated between the academy and the city, a space of lively criticism/art practice. More than 100 undergraduate and postgraduate students in Drama & Theatre Studies study, work, and perform in Granary, contributing to debate and practice, and welcoming the perspective of the professional artist & critic.
Granary explores contemporary performance and art practices from a range of thematic, theoretical, historical and pedagogic perspectives, introducing new work by international artists who have not shown before in Ireland, as well as examining historical moments of experimentation. Granary seeks to complement existing theatre/arts programmes within the city, and seeks to offer opportunities for Cork-based artists to show work. Granary collaborates with numerous arts and community organisations. It works in partnership with Drama & Theatre Studies at UCC, as well as other universities and colleges. A strong emphasis is placed on developing people’s interest in new forms of performance through regular fora for debate.
Resident Company

Granary Productions

New Irish Plays Produced By Granary Theatre

Play Title	Playwright
Crowman	Katie Holly
Hatch 22	Neil O'Sullivan
Head Room	Johnny Hanrahan
Knock 3 Times	Gaye Shortland
Love, Peace and Robbery	Liam Heylin
Mantle	Ronan Fitzgibbon
Misterman	Enda Walsh
Pondlife Angels	Enda Walsh
Spitting Love	Jennifer Rogers
The Ballad of Charlie and Cate	Ed Malone
The Bluffer's Guide to Suburbia	Raymond Scannell
The Burning Spirit	Seán Dunne (1) Jessica Kirby and Desmond Brambley are also credited with 'Scripting' in the original production programme.
The Ginger Ale Boy	Enda Walsh The play incorporates an original score for string quartet by Eoghan Horgan, and songs with words by Walsh and music by Eoghan Horgan.
The Magic Tree	Ursula Rani Sarma
Violet Gibson	Alice Barry
Wanderings	Ursula Rani Sarma
Wet Paint	Shane Casey
With My Bare Hands	Frances Kay Based on the fourteenth-century account of a pilgrimage from Ireland to Jerusalem written by the Clonmel friar Simon FitzSimon (Symon Simeonis).

Adaptations/Translations

Play Title	Adapter/Translator
Dradin, In Love	Bob Kelly Jeff Vandermeer
End of the Line	Jody O'Neill Paul Ioachim Translation of the Romanian play 'Podul Sinucigasilor' by Paul Ioachim.
Harrowed Land	Emelie FitzGibbon Adapted from John Montague's 'The Rough Field'.
Mind That 'tis My Brother	Gaye Shortland Adapted by the author from her novel of the same name.
There Are Little Kingdoms	Kevin Barry Adapted by Kevin Barry from his book of the same name.
Volpone	Johnny Hanrahan Ben Johnson Adapted from Ben Jonson's satirical comedy Volpone.