Arsehammers and Bonfire Night
A Galway Girl
Shakers Re-Stirred
Two
Women’s Voices … Women’s Stories …
Secrets and Stories
The Tailor and Ansty
Letters of a Match Maker
The Tinkers Wedding and Shadow of the Glen
Vanity Vapours and Dizzy Debutantes
8 Reindeer Monologues
Fred & Alice (2013)
(view play page for further info)
Written and directed by John Sheehy
Cast: Ciaran Bermingham & Cora Fenton
Played:
- Bewleys’ Café Theatre Dublin: (3 week runs in Feb and Sept/Oct)
- Friars’ Gate Theatre
- Half Moon Theatre Cork
- International Women’s Day Newcastlewest
- Savoy Hotel Limerick
- Voiceworks Studio Cork
- Viking Theatre, Clontarf
- Iniscealtra Festival
- Solstice Arts Festival
- St John’s Theatre and Arts Centre
- Clonmel Junction Festival
- Cairde Arts Festival Sligo
- Birr Arts Festival and Vintage Week
- West Cork Fit Up Festival
Arsehammers and Bonfire Night
by Claire Dowie (view play page for further info)
Directed by John Sheehy
Cast: Cora Fenton
Played:
- Lunchtime Theatre at the Savoy Hotel Limerick
- Moat Theatre, Naas
- Library and Arts Centre, Athy
- Cork Arts Theatre
- Unitarian Church Cork
- Friars’ Gate Theatre
- Deebert House Hotel
- Carnegie Library, Rathkeale
- 123 Festival Dungarvan
- Tech Amergin Waterville
(A donation from each show goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Ireland)
A Galway Girl
by Geraldine Aron
Directed by Cora Fenton and John Sheehy
Cast: Cora Fenton and John Sheehy
A married couple reminisce about their life together. The play explores the life of Maisie, who tries to keep family and finances together despite the best efforts of her roguish husband, Dermot. The 30 minute show speeds through 40 years of household bickering and incompatibility!
Played:
- Cruises Cafe, Limerick
- Thurles Arts Festival
Shakers Re-Stirred
by John Godber
Directed by Marion Wyatt
Cast: Alison O’Flynn, Ann Dorgan, Rosie O’Regan, Cora Fenton
Played:
Cork Arts Theatre
Two
by Jim Cartwight
Directed by Cora Fenton and John Sheehy
Cast: Cora Fenton & John Sheehy
Played:
Cork Arts Theatre Bar (Sell Out Run)
National Tour (approx 20 venues)
Women’s Voices … Women’s Stories …
An Interactive Tapestry of Poetry, Song and Story
(view production page for further info)
With
Noirín Ní Riain – Singer
Eileen Sheehan – Poet
Cora Fenton – Actor
Weaving magically and effortlessly between poetry, song, story and drama, this unique presentation celebrates the entire range of human experience from the tragic to the comic through to the spiritual.
‘Women’s Voices… Women’s Stories…’ is available for booking (contact us)
Secrets and Stories
Adapted from Paddy Kennelly’s ‘A Place too Small for Secrets’
Directed by Cora Fenton and John Sheehy
Cast: Cora Fenton and John Sheehy
A hugely enjoyable show adapted from the works of the award winning Kerry poet Paddy Kennelly. An evening of hilarious stories and secrets from a multitude of colourful characters brought zestfully to life. The characters portrayed in Paddy’s work are instantly recognisable and can be found in any small village in Ireland. Each of these stories is a slice of Irish life that will nudge a chord of recognition and is guaranteed to remind you of someone you know!
‘Fantastic Show’.
‘Really enjoyed it’. - The Corkman
Played:
- Éigse Michael Hartnett
- Cork Arts Theatre Irish Summer Festival
- South Tipp Rural Arts Network
- Voices Festival BallyLongford
- Lough Gur Story Telling Festival
- Friars’ Gate Theatre
- Castleconnell Summer Festival
The Tailor and Ansty
by Eric Cross
(A One Hour Adaptation)
Directed by Cora Fenton and John Sheehy
Cast: Cora Fenton and John Sheehy
All human life is here: marriages, matchmaking, wakes and always the Tailor, his wife and their black cow. The earthy humour of the pair makes this show a delight from beginning to end.
‘Powerful!’. ‘I would go see it again tonight’. South Tipperary Rural Arts Group
Played:
- Cork Arts Theatre Irish Summer Festival
- Éigse Michael Hartnett
- Dan Paddy Andy Festival Lyreacrompane
- Castleconnell Summer Festival
- Tech Amergin, Waterville
- Aras Eanna Arts Centre, Inis Oirr
Letters of a Match Maker
by John B. Keane
(A One Hour Adaptation)
Directed by Cora Fenton and John Sheehy
Cast: Cora Fenton and John Sheehy
Letters, hilariously Irish, tells the story of Dicky Mick Dicky the Matchmaker and his clients, including Fionnula Crust a woman who is looking for a husband who ‘functions in all areas’! And Thady Thade Biddy a married man looking for his wife to ‘function more than once a year’! The Matchmaker’s remedy, the brave deserve the fair and every old shoe should find an old stocking.
‘John B would be delighted’. Limerick County Arts Officer
Played:
- Seanchai Summer Programme, Listowel
- Tech Amergin, Waterville,
- Éigse Michael Hartnett
- Cork Arts Theatre Irish Summer Festival
Co Productions:
The Tinkers Wedding & In the Shadow of the Glen
by J M Synge
Co production with Friars’ Gate Theatre,
Supported by Ballyhoura Development
Directed by Joan Sheehy
A Tinkers Wedding
Synge’s comic imagination at its most exciting and unpredictable. Sarah Casey convinces the reluctant Michael Byrne to marry her by threatening to run off with another man. She accosts a local priest and convinces him to wed them for ten shillings and a tin can.
Cast: Mandy Dunworth, Katie Holly, Patrick Kelly, Robert Lee
In the Shadow of The Glen
A tramp seeking shelter in the isolated Burke farmhouse finds Nora tending to the corpse of her husband Dan. Synge pits love and freedom against material sensibilities with hilarious consequences.
Cast: Cora Fenton, Joe Mullins, Patrick Kelly, Robert Lee
Played:
- Friars’ Gate Theatre
- Ballyhoura Regional Tour: (3 venues) Manister, Kilbehenny and Caherconlish Community Centres
Vanity Vapours and Dizzy Debutantes
an adaptation by Ruth Draper
Co production with Vanessa Hyde
Directed by Mary Curtain
Cast: Vanessa Hyde, Kate McSweeney O’Rourke, Denise Quinn, Cora Fenton
A comedy, based on the characters created by Ruth Draper
Played:
- Cork Midsummer Festival
- St John’s Theatre and Arts Centre, Listowel
- The Village Arts Centre, Kilworth
- Friars Gate Theatre
- Imagine Arts Festival, Waterford
8 Reindeer Monologues
by Geoff Goude
Co production with Hyde Productions
Directed by James Hyde
Cast: Adrian Scanlon, Brian Stynes, Cora Fenton, Kate McSwiney-O’Rourke, Taylor Lane
An anti-panto for Christmas! A hilarious comedy for grown-ups about Santa and why the 8 reindeer are about to go on strike. Proceeds supported 3 of Cork’s leading charities: ARC Cancer Support House, The Breast Care Unit at South Infirmary Hospital & The Cork Deaf Association.
Played:
- Cork Arts Theatre