Blood in the Alley in association with the Arts Office of Cork County Council takes to the highways and byways of East and North- East county Cork for the 2020 Blackwater Fit-up Theatre Festival. This is the fifth year of this very popular theatre festival which tours high quality productions to rural villages and towns in County Cork. This year’s Spring programme, curated by Artistic Director Geoff Gould, is the most ambitious and exciting to date with twenty- five nights of great theatre as eight new plays are performed in five venues in the Blackwater area over a five week period
The festival opens on Wednesday 22nd of January and over the next five weeks will see a different programme on offer each week.
Week 1 January 22- 27. Crowman performed by Jon Kenny. Written by Katie Holly, this production sold out at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin in September and is loved by audiences and critics alike.
Week 2 January 29 – February 2. Bairbre Ni Chaoímh’s new play Maura Laverty, This was your Life, Maura Laverty, the multi-talented broadcaster, cookery expert, agony aunt and controversial writer, who was a household name in Ireland for three decades, is spirited back from the dead to face a live and online audience on a surreal TV show called ‘This WAS Your LIFE.’ Legendary actress Carol Moore’s performs her new play The Experience of Being, a bemused and honest examination of the ageing process.
Week 3 February 5 -9 Pat Kinevane has performed more plays at Fit-up Festivals than any other single artist, and his new play Before, produced by Fishamble;The New Play Company, will be much anticipated by audiences.
Week 4 February 12 -16 Leitrim-born playwright Seamus O’Rourke brings his new play Indigestion to the festival and Aindreas de Staic makes his first visit to the Blackwater Fit-up with his award-winning play The Man from Moogaga. Both plays are performed on the same evening from the 12th to the 16th of February.
Week 5. February 19 -23 Two new plays, Appropriate by Sarah-Jane Scott and Spliced by Timmy Creed will be staged in the final week from February 19th-23rd. Both plays were enthusiastically received at this year’s Edinburgh theatre festival.
Venues
The Town Hall, Mitchelstown; Community Hall, Bartlemy; Community Hall, Ballynoe; The Mall Arts Centre,Youghal; The Palace (Community Youth Centre ), Fermoy.
Tickets are 15 euro and 13 euro concession. All plays start at 8pm and details can be found on the festival website at: www.fit-uptheatrefestival.com .
For further information contact: Geoff Gould 0860454458 geoffgouldballydehob@gmail.com
Supported by Cork County Council and the Arts Council of Ireland
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