Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd April at 7:30pm in the Granary Theatre.

Tickets are free but booking is ESSENTIAL 

Link to book - tiny url.com/FYPshow2025

19th & 20th March 2025 

7:30pm in the Granary Theatre

Free - Booking Essential.

In the Making is a one-day, participatory and multidisciplinary arts festival designed to spotlight and inspire creative exploration and discovery. Taking place in the city’s iconic Cork Opera House on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025, this packed programme presents a unique opportunity to look inside the imaginations and creative practices of vibrant artists and makers, connecting audiences with some of the distinctive creative processes, inspirations and ideas driving Ireland’s arts scene today.

The School of Film, Music and Theatre is delighted to announce our Transition Year Creative Arts programme. This is a 3-day Creative Arts intensive that will allow selected participants to get a taste of student life in University College Cork.

When: 10th - 12th March 2025

Where: School of Film, Music and Theatre, University College Cork

Who: Transition Year Students

How: Application form - https://forms.office.com/e/R5LWQtvpKJ

Mon 9th at 7:30pm in the Granary Theatre. 

Event is free but ticketed - Link to Book:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-little-bit-of-theatre-tickets-1101211947579

Shows in the Granary Theatre at 7:30 pm

Weds 4th - SOLD OUT

Thurs 5th - tickets available 

Dyson (he/him) is a sound researcher, metalworker, performer and installation artist whose practice operates between critical spatial theory, sound studies, and site-specific interventions in relation to the phenomenology of place and maintenance. 

The Knitting Map, a collaborative textile based project created as part of Cork Capital of Culture 2005 is currently installed in Art Museum of West Virginia University in Morgantown.

• UCC English and Theatre students guest curate special edition of The Irish Times Magazine.
• Tess O’Regan and Dorothée Karekezi among four guest curators.
• Special edition explores key issues affecting students including addictions on campus, artificial intelligence, mental health, identity and generational stereotyping.

Cork Opera House and University College Cork are delighted to announce that applications are now invited for the third Theatre Artist in Residence Programme, which is jointly funded by Cork Opera House and UCC.

You are warmly invited to witness the Animal-Woman Journey(s) audio-visual installation with durational performance. This installation re-imagines folk tales about Animal-Women whose magical skins are lost, stolen or destroyed.

Introduction to Adult Acting (18+) and Adult Acting toward Performance 

Registration and payment here - 

https://uccshop.ie/shop/adult-acting-towards-performance/

The Midsummer festival is upon us, with an eclectic and exciting programme spanning until June 23rd. Many UCC Theatre alumni and friends are presenting and contributing to work at the festival this year, including in the following shows.

UCC Youth Theatre (UCCYT) will host a free workshop for young people aged 13+ with an interest in gaining Theatre skills, developing creatively, and meeting new people.

IN HER HEAD consists of three short theatre adaptations created by UCC Department of Theatre Final Year students. A common thread running through the three pieces is the experience of being a woman in the world.

Tickets available on eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/in-her-head-tickets-880119530207?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

The Department of Theatre at University College Cork is hosting an online webinar to provide information about two of its taught postgraduate programmes, on the 21st of March 3-3:30pm. 

The UCC 2nd Year Theatre and Performative Practices students present their performance "Rasharemix", a response to the film Rashomon.

Performances on the 20th and 21st of March at 7:30pm
Granary Theatre, Dyke Parade, Centre, Cork, Ireland
Free Admission

CurrentLee Arts Festival is an interactive event at Cork Opera House on the 10th of April, 2024. Overlooking the River Lee, the festival celebrates this unique city by bringing people in and of Cork together. In collaboration with Cork-based artists, we invite you to create and explore through an immersive journey within the Opera House.

Introduction to Adult Acting (18+) and Adult Acting Advanced 

Registration and payment here - 

https://uccshop.ie/shop/introduction-adult-acting/

This Mon 11th at 8pm in the Granary Theatre - All Welcome! 

Work from MA, HDip and BA students in the Department of Theatre. 

MA Theatre & Performative Practices Students present

TOWARDS THE GLEN

A performance walk through the Glen River Park

Tue 21 Nov @ 2pm

Wed 22 Nov @ 2pm

Meet at the Yin Yang / Snake Sculpture

(closest entrance via Sunview Place East / Ballyhooly Rd

Bus: 207A/ 207/ 209/ 248 from City Centre to Harrington Square)

We are delighted to be hosting the annual Youth Theatre Practice Symposium this Nov 10th & 11th here in the Department of Theatre. 

Kohler Gallery, Lawrence University WI

Sept 22 – Nov 17, 2023

Jools Gilson

Artist in Residence Oct 16 – 20, 2023

Supported by Culture Ireland

PERFORUM - Artistic Research Seminar - Autumn 2023

Konstantinos Thomaidis

Voicing Bodies, Voicing Histories:

Elaine Mitchener’s Sweet Tooth

Thur 23^rd Nov @ 2.10pm

Granary Theatre 

2:15pm - Weds 11th October - Granary Theatre 

Dr Bernadette Cronin and Regina Crowley (MTU) will launch their new book Kristin Linklater, published by Routledge in their Performance Practitioners Series on master voice coach for actors. The launch will take place in the Everyman Theatre bar Tuesday, 26th September from 6.30 - 7.30 pm.

Introduction to Adult Acting (18+) and Adult Acting Advanced 

Registration and payment here - 

https://uccshop.ie/shop/introduction-adult-acting/

The Cork Midsummer Festival is in full swing, with many multidisciplinary arts events underway. We are delighted to see so many Department of Theatre alumni of past and present programmes creating and presenting work at the festival this year.  

One Year Masters by Research (MRes)

Studentship Value: €13,500

(Full-time UCC fees €5770; Stipend of €6130; making fee of €1600)

Application deadline – Thur 20th July 2023, midnight.

Interview date – Tue 8^th Aug (either in person or online)

Start date - Oct 1^st 2023; Final Submission - Sept 30^th 2024

Sharing of work at Cork Opera House, Culture Night - Sept 2023

The Lazy Flame is new play, written by members of UCC Youth Theatre. Set in a fantasy world, it explores magic, rebellion and letting go.

UCC is delighted to present the Spring 2023 Perforum Series, curated by UCC and Cork Opera House Theatre Artist-in-Residence, Jody O’Neill. The season will explore creating theatre and dance through the lens of disability. 

Rosaleen McDonagh - “Disability light” “Disability reality” 

29th March 2023

2:15 in the Granary Theatre 

The Wonderism Festival: A Cork Opera House Creating Together Production in Association with the Department of Theatre, University College Cork (UCC). 

Daughter of God is produced in association with Cork Opera House, UCC Department of Theatre/Granary Theatre and Once Off Productions, supported by Fishamble: The New Play Company and Arts & Disability Ireland.

UCC is delighted to present the Spring 2023 Perforum Series, curated by UCC and Cork Opera House Theatre Artist-in-Residence, Jody O’Neill. The season will explore creating theatre and dance through the lens of disability. 

Roderick Ford - The Poetics of Otherness

1st March 2023

2:15 in the Granary Theatre 

The Department of Theatre is delighted to announce that two arts professionals of the highest calibre are being supported by the Irish Research Council within the Enterprise Partnership Scheme for Postgraduate researchers and the Employment-Based Postgraduate Programme to complete PhD research. Each will receive funding of €110,000 to support their study, from their organisational partner and the IRC. Both candidates will be integrating artistic practice into their research trajectories.

UCC is delighted to present the Spring 2023 Perforum Series, curated by UCC and Cork Opera House Theatre Artist-in-Residence, Jody O’Neill. The season will explore creating theatre and dance through the lens of disability. 

Rhona Coughlan: Conversations about disability and dance

25th of January 2023

2:15 in the Granary Theatre 

Weds 25th January 2.15pm @ Granary Theatre: Rhona Coughlan/Conversations about disability and dance

Weds 1st March 2:15pm @ Granary Theatre: Roderick Ford / The Poetics of Otherness

Weds 29th March 2:15pm @ Granary Theatre: Rosaleen McDonagh/ “Disability light” “Disability reality” 

Doireann O’Malley / Conversations On A Crosstown Algorithm   

Wed 14^th Dec / 2.15pm @ Granary Theatre  

Screening / Artist Talk

Doireann O’Malley & collaborators Bertrand Flanet and Lugh O'Neil

Picture the Audience Naked is a sharing of new work in progress created by MA and BA students in the Department of Theatre, University College Cork. Students across a range of modules will share their work together in the Granary Theatre. 

The sharing run over two nights and starts at 8pm - Wednesday 30th Nov and Thurs 1st Dec - with different work presented each night.

Modules presenting work include First Year Introduction to Practice, Final Year Special Studies in Theatre Practice and MA Advanced Theatre Practice. The sharing is supported by Second Year Performance Technologies: Explorations. 

Tickets are free but must be booked via Eventbrite - Book here

Trigger Warning: 

A wide range of themes are explored including bullying, racism, psychological and physical violence, etc. 

Jody O'Neill the UCC-COH Theatre Artist in Residence will be doing a free performance of her new show 'Yellow' on Thursday, 8th Dec at 2pm in the Granary Theatre. 

Our Perforum Series is back for a third installment! On Weds 9th Nov we welcome Professor Jools Gilson to Granary Theatre at 2:15pm to discuss:

Tempestries: The Cloonshannagh Bog Body, Textiles & Somatic Research

UCC CREATIVE & UCC Environmental Research Institute

DANCE ARTIST / PLANT SCIENCE RESIDENCIES

Glenkeen Gardens, West Cork

2022-23

UCC's School of Film, Music and Theatre with Cork Opera House are delighted to announce the MRes Studentship recipient Angela O'Callaghan - The Studentship is one of the four pillars of the COH-UCC collaboration. We are excited to see angelas research develop over the coming months strengthening the Cork Opera House - Universit College Cork connection. 

Supporting Inclusion in Youth Theatre

Learning from Practice

18th and 19th Nov 2022 

University College Cork

Wed 28th Sept, 2.15pm @ Granary Theatre:      Róisín O'Gorman / Attuning to archival affects through arts practice research

Wed 19th Oct, 2.15pm @ Granary Theatre:          Jody O'Neill / Advocacy Through Art

Wed 9th Nov, 2.15pm @ Granary Theatre:        Jools Gilson / Tempestries: The Cloonshannagh Bog Body & Textiles

Wed 14^th Dec, 2.15pm @ Granary Theatre:          Doireann O’Malley /Conversations On A Crosstown Algorithm

Arts Project Management aims to provide foundational skills in planning and developing arts events, event management, arts marketing, grant application writing, finance for event management, and event fundraising.

Introduction to Adult Acting (18+) and Adult Acting Advanced 

Registration and payment here - 

https://uccshop.ie/shop/introduction-adult-acting/

UCC Department of Theatre is delighted to announce that UCC Youth Theatre is opening Sign Up for 2022-23 for a limited number of spaces. Workshops will start back on the Tues 20th Sept  from 7-8:30pm in person in the Theatre Lab. Please get in touch if you have any questions or would like to come along and try it out. 

Inclusive Dance Cork is a pilot training programme open to dance and movement practitioners interested in learning inclusive dance methods. It is planned as a two-year training programme for professional artists, teachers of dance, and dance practitioners, inclusive of people with and without disabilities.

The School of Film, Music and Theatre at University College Cork, Ireland, is seeking a candidate for an MRes – Masters by Research -- Studentship as part of our working relationship with Cork Opera House. The Studentship is one of the four pillars of the COH-UCC collaboration. An independent-minded, driven artist, whose artistic process demonstrates strong affinities with research-based investigations, and who enjoys engaging with theory-practice integrated approaches, will be well-suited to this opportunity.

For more information and how to apply please follow the link here: https://www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacancies/research/full-details-1568634-en.html

We are delighted that Jody O’Neill will be the Cork Opera House – UCC Theatre Artist in Residence for 2022-23.

The Department of Theatre, School of Film | Music | Theatre, University College Cork

Presents Perforum Lunchtime Research Series: 5^th, 12^th, 19^th, and 26^th May 2022 

(Live and Online) 

The Danijela Kulezic-Wilson Memorial Award. PhD Scholarship in the School of Film, Music & Theatre, University College Cork.

Words & Bodies is a collection of collaborative pieces surrounding the themes of sanctuary and refugee, all of which involve found texts from those who have had such experiences. The texts were found after a research process and are from a range of sources.  

Friday 25th from 13:30 - booking required - https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/words-bodies-tickets-275008637237

Cork Opera House and University College Cork Department of Theatre have announced a Theatre Artist in Residence Programme that will provide a bursary of €20,000 to a professional theatre artist who identifies as autistic/person with autism.

The Department of Theatre is excted to host an online open evening next Thrus 20th January at 7pm.

Please register here - https://forms.gle/5T8SCiu8BmoUSr246\

Introduction to Adult Acting (18+)

Duration: 6 weeks on Mondays

Start Date: Monday 17th Jan 2022

Location: In person in the Theatre Lab

Time: 19:00pm – 21:00pm

Price:  €110.00 for UCC Staff/Students, recipients of Social Welfare Payments, Over 65’s. €130 for all other applicants.

The Department of Theatre, School of Film, Music and Theatre at University College Cork, Ireland, is seeking a candidate for a PhD Studentship in the area of programming, creative producing, outreach, inclusion and arts administration.

Programme dates: 28 February – 4 March, 2022

Subject to Public Health Guidelines

TY Corvinus will be held from 28 February – 4 March 2022.

This programme is designed for second level Transition Year students interested in literary, creative, and historical humanities.

Our week-long programme includes a range of workshops and taster lectures/seminars on. 

• Celtic Civilisation
• English
• Greek and Roman Civilisation
• History
• History of Art
• Theatre

Introduction to Adult Acting (18+)

Duration: 6 weeks on Mondays

Start Date: Monday 1st Nov 2021

Location: In person in the Theatre Lab

Time: 19:00pm – 21:00pm

Price:  €110.00 for UCC Staff/Students, recipients of Social Welfare Payments, Over 65’s. €130 for all other applicants.

Scenario Forum is delighted to launch an archive of the Online Research Colloquiuim series. Initially containing the first seven sessions, this archive will grow over time. We hope that it is a useful and engaging resource for the Performative Teaching, Learning, and Research community.

Link to view here - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_tFOILtYTte1BDs9IbHAKouoH2L6EQJr

We are delighted to announce that the registration for the 8th Scenario Forum Symposium “Sore Back, Square Eyes? Going Performative in Digital Teaching and Learning Spaces” is now open! The symposium will take place online on Friday 18th & Saturnday 19th June 2021.

Join second-year and MA students in Theatre & Performative Practices as they share devised work generated during performance modules in 2021. Inspired by the original artwork from Textile students in MTU these pieces push and challenge the theatrical devising process. 

Online event on April 28th at 8 pm via Zoom - link to book tickets 

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/out-of-touch-tickets-149293568081

Click for Out of Touch Programme 

8th Scenario Forum Online Colloquium - 24 April 2021 - 11:00am 

We are delighted to welcome special guest John O'Toole who has made an outstanding contribution to our field of research. As John is based in Australia, please note that this colloquium will not take place in the usual time slot, but two and a half hours earlier at 11 a.m. Irish time / 8 p.m. Australian time.

John O'Toole

Stand Up for Literature – dramatic approaches in the secondary classroom

A 60minute presentation, followed by discussion.

You can register at: https://forms.gle/Kpn1o1eKnSwrSToZ6

The Department of Theatre is delighted to announce sign up for our Adult Acting evening class starting on Mon 1st Feb 2021 is now open. 

Also UCC Youth Theatre is open to new members joining in Jan 2021. 

The Department of Theatre is delighted to launch registration for our Adult Acting classes and UCC Youth Theatre. Both classes will be launched online with regular review following best practice and public health advice.

For new and continuing students in the Department of Theatre, at all levels:

The Department of Theatre is undertaking a rigorous exercise with external health and safety consultants to identify the kinds of teaching we will be able to deliver next year in each module. Because of the particular needs of Theatre, we are taking some time to work through these issues in order to give you the *best learning experience possible* while *keeping you as safe as possible*. 

UCC Youth Theatre is delighted to host Midsummer Meet UP 2020 with the Cork Midsummer Festival. Memebers from 5 local Youth Theatre will meet to share skills, make friends and leanring about theatre. Workshops facilitated by Maxine Acton-Carey, Julie O'Leary, Barry Whelan and Fionn Woodhouse. 

The Department of Theatre (School of Film, Music & Theatre) is delighted to announce 

Half Moon Festival

A once-off multi-disciplinary arts festival programmed by the inaugural cohort of the MA in Arts Management & Creative Producing as part of their end of year practical work.

Friday 26^th to Sunday 28^th June 2020.

For sneak previews of the festival you can listen back to events featured on Evelyn Grant’s Weekend Drivetime (Lyric FM) last weekend (see http://rte.ie/r.html?rii=16_11206916_21613_20-06-2020) or read more about Half Moon Festival on UCC Express (see https://uccexpress.ie/announcing-half-moon-festival-online-from-cork/).

For a full calendar of events and access to Half Moon Festival’s online platform see:https://www.halfmoonfest.com

UCC Youth Theatre (UCCYT) will host free online workshops for young people aged 14 - 18 with an interest in gaining Theatre skills, developing creatively, and meeting new people. These workshops are part of Cruinniú na nÓg supported by Creative Ireland. 

Wed 12^th February (6 – 7.45pm)

Deborah Middleton

Director of the Mindfulness and Performance Project at the University of Huddersfield, UK

‘Mindfulness for Performers: Embodied and Relational Practices’

Weds 20th (6 – 7:45 pm) 
Theatre Development Centre, Triskel Arts Centre, Tobin St, Cork.
Lorraine Maye - Cork Midsummer Festival

PERFORUM Autumn 2019 
Research/Practice: Curating & Producing
Perforum events are open to the public. Admission is free.

Join us at University College Cork on Friday and Saturday, 22 and 23 November, for “Which way from here?” an expanded annual Youth Theatre Symposium and enjoy two jam-packed days of workshops, discussion and performances. This year’s expanded symposium duration also means more opportunities to catch-up and network with fellow youth theatre practitioners from all over the island of Ireland.

We are delighted to announe the launch of new Theatre Employability Guides with the support of the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences. 

Weds 16th (6 – 7:45 pm) 
Theatre Development Centre, Triskel Arts Centre, Tobin St, Cork.
Fiona Kearney - Glucksman Gallery

PERFORUM Autumn 2019 
Research/Practice: Curating & Producing
Perforum events are open to the public. Admission is free.

Weds 18th (6 – 7:45 pm) 
Theatre Development Centre, Triskel Arts Centre, Tobin St, Cork.
Anne Clarke - Landmark Productions 

PERFORUM Autumn 2019 
Research/Practice: Curating & Producing
Perforum events are open to the public. Admission is free.

The Department of Theatre is delighted to announce our evening class program for 2019.

UCC Department of Theatre is delighted to announce the starting dates of this year’s UCC Youth Theatre. Workshops will start back on the Thurs 26th Sept from 7-9pm in the Theatre Lab on the Western Road. Please get in touch if you have any questions or would like to come along and try it out. 

Department of Theatre, School of Film, Music & Theatre, UCC
in association with Theatre Development Centre/Corcadorca Theatre Company
Presents
PERFORUM: AUTUMN 2019
Research/Practice: Curating & Producing
Venue: Theatre Development Centre, Triskel Christchurch, Tobin Street, Cork City.

The Department of Theatre are delighted to announce open workshops on Culture Night 2019 with Yvon Bonenfant and Julie O'Leary. 

Great day last Sat at Arts, Activism and the Envirnment: Conversations and Community including Global Water Dances Cork. See the programme for the event including participants etc below. 

Come to the Glucksman Gallery on the 15th June to watch or even take part in Arts, Activism and the Environment: Conversations & Community.
10:30 - Family Workshops
12:00 - Global Water Dances 
13:00 - Picnic and Journal Launch</p>

Killing Stella is inspired by Marlen Haushofer’s compelling novella Wir töten Stella (Austria, 1958), an unflinching story of collusion in abuse, and the price that has to be paid for remaining silent. This is the very first time Haushofer’s story has been translated and adapted for an English-speaking audience. With a host Department of Theatre staff and graduate involvement. 

Disco Pigs, directed by final year student Aideen Fox, takes home three national awards and was nominated for two more.

Cork Lifelong Learning Festival / South Parish Learning Neighbourhood in association with Nano Nagle Place presents an introduction to the Lantern Project’s new drama/theatre initiative followed by slideshow of Tableau Vivant created by members of the group

Venue:  Goldie Chapel, Nano Nagle Place 

6.30pm, Tuesday 9^th April

This Fri 5th and Sat 6th at 7pm in the Theatre Lab

Second Year Students of Theatre of the Image (Department of Theatre, School of Film, Music & Theatre) UCC, are delighted to present a series of short performances taking influences from the work of international practitioners: Tadeusz Kantor, Pina Bausch and Robert Wilson.

Introducing Rhiannon Connick and her experience in the theatre department UCC.

Tues 26^th Feb (6 – 7:45 pm) 
Theatre Development Centre, Triskel Arts Centre, Tobin St, Cork.
‘The Poor Room to my Childhood: Influences of Tadeusz Kantor on the work of Brokentalkers’
Feidlim Cannon - Brokentalkers

PERFORUM SPRING 2019
Theatre of the Image
Perforum events are open to the public. Admission is free.

We are delighted to announce that our exciting new MA in Arts Management & Creative Producingis now open for applications for Sept 2019 intake.

As FYP showcase comes to an end, hear and see what students have to say.

PERFORUM SPRING 2019

Theatre of the Image

Venue: Theatre Development Centre, Triskel Christchurch, Tobin Street, Cork City.

Perforum events are open to the public. Admission is free.

Tues 26^th Feb (6 – 7:45 pm) 
Theatre Development Centre, Triskel Arts Centre, Tobin St, Cork.
‘Theatre Design: The Theatre and Architecture of Robert Wilson’
Serge Von Arx - Artistic Director of the Scenography Department, Norwegian Theatre Academy

PERFORUM SPRING 2019
Theatre of the Image
Perforum events are open to the public. Admission is free.

“A man.

Was it?

A man or a figure.

It can’t be both it was a man!

A man or a figure.

And what did they say about this man?”

Department of Theatre, School of Music & Theatre, UCC in association with Theatre Development Centre/Corcadorca Theatre Company presents
PERFORUM: SPRING 2019
Theatre of the Image
Venue: Theatre Development Centre, Triskel Christchurch, Tobin Street, Cork City.

Below are links to a selection of recent staff publications 

A collaboration between the Department of Theatre, School of Music and Theatre, and the Mental Health and Disability Research Cluster, Applied Social Studies/ISS21,

12:00 noon to 4:30 pm,
Tuesday 27th November 2018
Venue: CACSSS Seminar Room, O’Rahilly Building, UCC

Free public events as part of Llanarth Group Residency with new UCC MA in Theatre & Performative Practices in the Department of Theatre. 

MA and Final Year Students of our Engaging the Profession module had a fantastic field trip to the Dublin Theatre Festival with lecturers Dr. Marie Kelly and Dr. Bernadette Cronin. 

7th November 2018 Theatre Development Centre, Triskel Arts Centre, Tobin St, Cork.
‘Alternative Dramaturgies informed by a D/deaf and Disability Perspective’
Kaite O’Reilly - Playwright, Author and Dramaturge, Writer in Residence with the Llanarth Group, and Veteran of the Disabled People’s Movement

Perforum Autumn 2018 'Inclusivity and the Performing Arts'
Wednesdays 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm
Perforum events are open to the public and admission is free.

18th October 2018 - Theatre Development Centre, Triskel Arts Centre, Tobin St, Cork.
‘Working with touch and movement in arts and health’
Katy Dymoke - Teacher and Practitioner in Body-Mind Centering, Embody Move Program Director, Body Oriented Psychotherapist and director of Touchdown dance theatre company
Perforum Autumn 2018 'Inclusivity and the Performing Arts'
Perforum events are open to the public and admission is free.

Note Day Change to THURSDAY 18th at 6pm 

26th September 2018 - Theatre Development Centre, Triskel Arts Centre, Tobin St, Cork City
Talk Title - ‘Hearing and Connecting’
Eoin Nash – Manager of Arts and Creative Therapies, Cope Foundation, Cork.

The Department of Theatre are hosting two workshops on Culture Night 2018. Places are limited so please confirm attendance below via eventbrite or by emailing theatre@ucc.ie.

UCC Department of Theatre is delighted to announce the starting dates of this year’s UCC Youth Theatre. Workshops will start back on the Thurs 20th Sept from 7-9pm in the Theatre Lab on the Western Road. Please get in touch if you have any questions or would like to come along and try it out. 

Cork Opera House and UCC are delighted to announce that Cork playwright and actor John McCarthy has been selected as the inaugural Theatre Artist in Residence.

Killing Stella is inspired by Marlen Haushofer’s compelling novella Wir töten Stella (Austria, 1958), an unflinching story of collusion in abuse, and the price that has to be paid for remaining silent.This is the very first time Haushofer’s story has been translated and adapted for an English-speaking audience. With a host Department of Theatre staff and graduate involvement. 

Members from four different youth theatre met up in UCC on Fri 22nd June to take part in workshops, learn critical thinking skills and see theatre productions.

20th - 21st June 2018
Postgraduate Arts Practice Research Conference 2018
CHANGING THEATRES: DRAMATURGY AND CONTEMPORARY THEATRE PRACTICE AND RESEARCH

In the Theatre Lab, UCC

Performative pathways between schools, universities and the wider community
Friday, 25 May
12:00 – 16:30
Venue: Creative Zone, Boole Library, Main Campus, University College Cork

PERFORUM CONFERENCE 
20th & 21st June, 2018
POSTGRADUATE ARTS PRACTICE RESEARCH CONFERENCE 2018:
CHANGING THEATRES: DRAMATURGY AND CONTEMPORARY
THEATRE PRACTICE AND RESEARCH

Members of three Cork city based Youth Theatres - Activate Youth Theatre, Mallow based Lightbulb Youth Theatre and UCC Youth Theatre took part in a day of workshops, rehsearsal and performance on Sat 21st April in Graffiti Theatre Company.

Dr. Róisín O’Gorman
Department of Theatre
12 April, 1-2 PM, Aras na Laoi G18

GET FLOORED Fundraiser
Scoil an Cheoil agus na hAmharclannaíochta, UCC
School of Music and Theatre, UCC
20^thApril 2018 8pm-10pm in Cork Cricket Club on the Mardyke

11th April - Theatre Development Centre, Triskel Arts Centre, Tobin st, Cork
Talk title : 'Theatre and the Very Young - A Quiet Beauty' 
Emelie Fitzgibbon - CEO, Graffit Educational Theatre Company 

Perforum Spring 2018 'Innovative Practice in the Performative Arts'
Wednesdays 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm
Perforum events are open to the public and admission is free.

Status:Specific Purpose Whole Time Post
(Minimum Anticipated Duration of 5 Years)

Due to severe weather conditions the performances on 1st, 2nd and 3rd March had to be cancelled. 

The first RESONATE performance is now scheduled for Sunday, 4 March, 8 pm, Firkin Crane. Updates will follow regarding lunchtime performances during the week from 5 - 9 March.

Ticket Prices: €10 full, €8
Tickets available at the box office, www.firkincrane.ie or on 021 - 4507487
Online and phone bookings subject to per ticket fee, €1 Firkin Crane restoration levy included in ticket price

Final Year students of Engaging the Profession are excited about their Dublin field trip this week to see Porcelain by Margaret Perry at the Peacock Theatre.

14th March 2018 - Theatre Development Centre, Triskel Arts Centre, Tobin st, Cork
Talk title : ‘I Never Knew the Abbey Did That’
Phil Kingston – Abbey Theatre Community and Education Manager, Perforum Spring 2018 
Perforum Spring 2018 'Innovative Practice in the Performative Arts 
Wednesdays 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm
Perforum events are open to the public and admission is free.

7th March 2018 - Theatre Development Centre, Triskel Arts Centre, Tobin St, Cork.
'We don't know what's buried here - the theatre of campaigning'
Grace Dyas - activist, writer, theatre producer & director with THEATREclub
Perforum Spring 2018 'Innovative Practice in the Performative Arts
Wednesdays 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm
Perforum events are open to the public and admission is free.

Youth Theatre, Contemporary Dance for Beginners and Adult Acting (Intro and Advanced) are now Open for Sign Up. Learn new skills, meet new people and have fun in challenging, creative safe evniroment. 

Second Year Site-Specific Performance

SHOW, the annual weekend event where new works and works-in-progress are shown to the public, happens this coming weekend.  For those interested the schedule is below. Be aware that capacity is limited and seating will be on a first-come-first-served basis.   

Corvus: Keep Crow and CarrionWeds 29rd at 6pm 
Thurs 30th at 6pm 

Drama Lab, Connolly Complex, Western Road, Cork City
Booking is essential via Eventbrite.ie 
Search Corvus

We are now the DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE

Dr. Marie Kelly (School of Music and Theatre) will present a paper on Gender, representation and the Irish stage:  theatre casting, space and object at the CACSSS masterclass series on Women, Place and Space on Friday 17^thNovember. 

UCC Students and Staff are taking part in the Dragon of Shandon Parade this Halloween.  

Prof. Manfred Schewe has been invited to give a keynote lecture and lead eight workshop sessions as part of English Week (12-17 November 2017), organized by the International Forum for Steiner/Waldorf Education in Odenthal-Altenberg, near Cologne. During this week teachers will be able to participate in a wide range of drama-based workshops. For full details go to: http://www.waldorf-resources.org/fileadmin/files/Events/2017_ENGLISH_WEEK__Invitation_compl_.pdf

Perforum is an events series hosted by Drama and Theatre studies featuring the work of directors, practitioners, and researchers in the fields of theatre, drama and performance studies.
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‘Acts of Care’: applied drama and ‘sympathetic presence’ in Person-Centered Practice
Dr Matt Jennings, Ulster University.
Weds 8th November, Theatre Development Centre, Triskel Arts Centre, Tobin St., Cork City

10 X 10 Short Play Event 
Cork Arts Theatre 
17th - 21st Oct 
With plays written, directed and featuring a range of DTS current student and graduates. 

School of Music and Theatre Open Day
THEATRE - Connolly Complex 3pm
MUSIC - Music Buidlings 10am
SAT 4th Nov  
Call 021-4904229 or email theatre@ucc.ie to book your place - Limited numbers. 

Inspired by the recent production of Katie Roche in the Abbey Theatre, we are delighted to share a Research Pack by Dr. Marie Kelly. 

The GET FLOORED Fundraiser
Open Drop-in Movement Class
Thursdays (in Semester) 1.05 – 1.55pm
The Drama Lab, Connolly Complex
Pay what you can!
No previous experience necessary / All levels welcome

John Crutchfield & Manfred Schewe (eds): Going Performative in Intercultural Education: International Contexts, Theoretical Perspectives and Models of Practice

Perforum is an events series hosted by Drama and Theatre Studies featuring the work of directors, practitioners, and researchers in the fields of Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies.

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All Together Now - The Ensemble in Youth Theatre

Michelle Carew, Director, Youth Theatre Ireland, and Dave Kelly, National Training Coordinator, Youth Theatre Ireland. 

Introduction by Niall Cleary, Artistic Director with Graffiti Theatre Company. 

The Musicality of Beckett's Plays on the Page and in Performance

Wednesday 25^th January: Dr. Danijela Kulezic-Wilson

In her presentation Dr. Kulezic-Wilson will explore how Beckett’s infatuation with music led him to reach beyond the denotative purpose of language and imagine his theatre plays as musical compositions. She will be discussing how Beckett’s lifelong striving to achieve the perceptual immediacy of music through words was the primary force behind his reinvention of language and the creation of several landmark works in modern theatre. 

DRAMA AND THEATRE STUDIES ARE EXCITED TO LAUNCH THREE NEW EVENING COURSES 

Youth Theatre 15+ Introduction to Contemporary Dance  Acting for Adults 18+ 

Perforum is an events series hosted by Drama and Theatre Studies featuring the work of directors, practitioners, and researchers in the fields of Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies.

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‘Dislocated, disrupted, dispersed, devolved, delightful: Inclusive innovative community music education in Cork City’

Weds 20th Sept 6pm - 7:45pm 

Cork Community Art Link 

This Culture Night, Fri 22nd Sept, Drama and Theatre Studies will host a number of events that are open to the public to come and see what we do.

A 17 minute film based on the SCENARIO FORUM CONFERENCE 2017 entitled "Performative Spaces in Language, Literature and Culture Education" (University College Cork, 25 – 28 May) 

The UNIMA Research Commission with Cork Puppetry Festival, Drama and Theatre Studies - UCC, and Mary Immaculate College, is delighted to announce a two-day symposium exploring the ways puppetry intersects with disability and health.

The Department of Drama & Theatre Studies is pleased to introduce a new Higher Diploma in Arts (Theatre and Performative Practices) in the academic year 2017/18. 

The Higher Diploma in Arts (Theatre & Performative Practices) is a conversion course to Theatre-related studies for students with degrees in subjects other than Theatre or with Theatre as a minor subject. Completion of the Higher Diploma in Theatre & Performative Practices effectively converts your degree to the equivalent of an honours degree with Theatre as the main subject. 
It is designed for non-theatre graduates who wish to upskill, gain an additional qualification in the area of Theatre & Performative Practices which will pave the way to further study at MA or PhD level.

Practice-as-research at the intersection between embodied practice and theory.

19th & 20th June in Drama & Theatre Studies, UCC

Next weekend the 25th - 28th May sees the second SCENARIO Forum Conference entitled 'Performative Spaces in Language, Literature and Cultural Education'. Celebrating 10 years of SCENARIO Forum Journal this Conference welcomes over 100 speakers and workshop leaders from four continents and eighteen countries to explore the potential of performative spaces in relation to different content areas, genres, themes and approaches. 

Drama and Theatre Studies Students at their annual visit to the Abbey Theatre for a casting/audition workshop. 

Samuel Beckett: Other Archives

22^nd March: Professor David Pattie, Professor of Drama at the University of Chester

PERFORUM SPRING 2017

Samuel Beckett: Musicality, Making, and Other Archives 

Wednesdays 6:00 pm – 7:45 pm. Theatre Development Centre, Triskel Christchurch, Tobin Street, Cork.

Perforum events are open to the public and admission is free.

Running 8th - 11th March in the Granary Theatre

Tickets €10/5

FOREGROUNDS 2017 showcases the theatre-making talents of final year single and joint honours students in Drama & Theatre Studies at UCC.

A theatre evening in two parts, FOREGROUNDS 2017 presents 21^st Century adaptations of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll, The Tain, Orpheus and Eurydice, ‘The Canterville Ghost’ by Oscar Wilde and a piece of documentary film adapted from the real life experience of a lung transpantee.

Staging Beckett's Prose

15th February: Gare St Lazare Ireland in conversation with Dr. Nicholas Johnson (TCD)

In conversation with Dr. Nicholas Johnson, Judy Hegarty Lovett and Conor Lovett of Gare St. Lazare Ireland will discuss their work on staging Beckett’s prose. There will be a special focus on their current work in development on Beckett’s prose piece How it is (1964).

PERFORUM SPRING 2017

Samuel Beckett: Musicality, Making, and Other Archives 

Wednesdays 6:00 pm – 7:45 pm. Theatre Development Centre, Triskel Christchurch, Tobin Street, Cork.

Perforum events are open to the public and admission is free.

On every hour there will be a 30' video follow by a 10' art/sound installation. Also during the entire duration of the event there will be an exhibition of images/videos and a solo durational dance performance (6 hours) where audience are free to stay as long as they wish. Free entrance. This is part of Inma Pavons PhD. All welcome.

Phd candidate Patricia Klich presents “Will You Stay and Watch Me Dying”
Dates & Times: 
9pm Fri 30th Nov - Open Dress Reheasal 
7pm Sat 1st Dec

Part of a budding gesture to share some of the creative work of the School / across CACSSS with our communities at this strange extraordinary time. Please click on the following link to listen to the podcast FIASKO.mp3

https://uccireland-my.sharepoint.com/personal/jgilson_ucc_ie/Documents/Attachments/FIASKO.mp3