Take A Chair: talking theatre and creativity Karen Minihan

This podcast was originally designed as a live event performed in August 2022 in the Ellen Hutchins Festival. The script is devised by performer and writer Karen Minihan and Finola Finlay (Roaringwater Journal) from Ellen's correspondence with fellow botanist, Dawson Turner. This edited version includes Karen reading extracts from Ellen’s correspondence, with context and notes provided by Finola. The poetry is provided by Laura McKenna, poet and writer, from her body of work inspired by...

On 10th July, 2021, eight of the original cast members of Amadeus attended a workshop in a garden on a fantastic summer's day. The individual work--performance, writing and recording--ultimately became the focus of the day. All the work came from the atmosphere and collective creativity involved in the original production of Amadeus in 2019--hence the name, Amadeus: Reflected, for the exhibition as a whole. The theme for the individual work was: pleasure / protection.As each a...

On the 10th July, 2021, at the end of the workshop in the garden, we did some group work, recreating the Venticelli groups from the original 2019 Amadeus production. This is an experiment--having fun with words and sounds.Support the Show.

There are many areas in which Ger FizGibbon has been prominent in theatre in Cork city–-as one of those responsible for setting up and becoming the Head of Department of Theatre and Drama Studies as a director and writer for theatre in Cork.We focus a lot in this discussion on the city and how the theatre scene has evolved over the past 50 years–-the struggles, the achievements, the politics, the Arts Council––we discuss his involvement in Dramat in UCC, in CTC, the Ivernia, Meridian, the Eve...

With twenty-five years experience in the film and writing business, Jeremy Massey gives an oversight of his creative process in working through many screenplays, one novel, published by Penguin US, The Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley, an historical novel in writing, Isolato and another in progress, Paddy Buckley's Dance with the Devil. He discusses his use of structure and form; how he came to the different voices for his characters; how his career in writing has evolved over time; working in...

A long-term co-creator with Karen Minihan, this chat with Terri Leiber is the third in the Series, and the final member of the PlayActing Theatre group. As well as acting in classic plays where Karen was the director, they have collaborated as writers and actors since 2011 in The Eileen and Marilyn Experience on six different comedy / cabaret shows and other performances. They say they were 'big' in west Cork!Because of their longstanding working relationship and the particular chemistry betw...