VIRGINA WOOLF’S To The Lighthouse, adapted by Marina Carr, directed by Annabelle Comyn, and starring Derbhle Crotty is to be screened at the Town Hall Theatre.
The screening will be in person at the Town Hall on Tuesday March 22 at 8pm. After the success of its broadcast as part of Cork Midsummer Festival 2021, Hatch Theatre Company and The Everyman are bringing back the digital capture of this production.
The play opens with the Ramsay family enjoying carefree days spent with friends by the sea. Yet what appears tranquil on the surface, masks deep currents of longing and frustration which the characters struggle to contain. Among the play’s many themes are those of loss, subjectivity, the nature of art, unity and the problem of perception.
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Eventually these tensions erupt to the surface. The world is in transition and death becomes a footnote to a seismic global change, those who remain try to cope in a new era and with the loss that it brings.
The cast is Derbhle Crotty, Declan Conlon, Aoife Duffin, Olwen Fouéré, Nick Dunning, Colin Campbell, Kyle Hixon, Maura Bird, Kwaku Fortune and Gillian Buckle.
The production has won wide acclaim with the Irish Examiner calling it “a gloriously ambitious and inventive production”. The Irish Independent said, “Virginia Woolf’s modernism finds astute expression in this spectacular production”.
Tickets are €10 and available from the Town Hall (091 - 569777, https://www.tht.ie ). To The Lighthouse will be available on-demand from March 19 to 27 March.
