'Good Sex' and 'Night Dances' to take centre-stage at the Cork Midsummer Festival

AN eclectic mix of ‘exhilarating and provocative’ performances will take centre stage at the Cork Midsummer Festival when the celebration of culture hits venues around the city such as the Opera House, the Everyman, and the Marina Market Warehouse during June.

As the festival organisers continue their preparations in advance of the opening of the arts extravaganza, which promises an exciting line-up of theatre, dance, music and art and the annual Midsummer Parade, details of two of the festival’s headline productions have been revealed.

Good Sex, a play written by Emilie Pine and presented by acclaimed production company, Dead Centre, will feature two new actors each show and they will tell a story of desire, betrayal, and loneliness. The actors, some of the best working in Ireland at present, will be guided by an intimacy director trained in the art of teaching people how to touch.

The production, which carries a 12+ rating, contains simulated sex but no nudity, strong language and themes of a mature nature. It runs every night in The Everyman between June 20 and June 23 with a 3pm matinee on Sunday, June 23.

Night Dances, created by Emma Martin and featuring a pounding soundtrack by Daniel Fox of the Gilla Band, is described as a love letter to dance in all its forms and a celebration of dance culture from clubs to competitions and ceremonies. It will be staged in the Warehouse at the Marina Market between June 13 and 15, and each 60-minute performance gets underway at 8.30pm.

Emma Martin’s work as a choreographer spans different art-forms and combines different disciplines to create distinct visual universes, according to the promotional material. This is the first presentation of the company’s work in Cork. Night Dances has been described as a ‘thrilling hour of relentless dancing and music’.

For more on Cork Midsummer Festival visit https://www.corkmidsummer.com.