Cork Fringe | Festival

Eden. | Sorcha Browning

11am - 4pm | 9th - 11th May | Laneway Gallery

A Xerox of a Deer | The Horgles

3pm | 10th May | The Granary

Piano Recital | Andy Ingamells & Benjamin Burns

7pm | 11th May | The TDC

Eden. | Sorcha Browning

11am - 4pm | 9th - 11th May | Laneway Gallery

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Our Programme

IN A BAD WAY HAPPY CAPITAL

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OUR SUPPORTERS

Cork Fringe Festival is a new festival celebrating the weird, the wonderful, and the often under-represented in the Cork arts-scene. Using both conventional and unconventional venue spaces, Cork Fringe aims to present a multi-disciplinary arts festival that nurtures up and coming artists and arts professionals of all artistic disciplines in Cork, as well as internationally, to showcase and platform their craft.

Our Vision

To harness the immense artistic talent present in Cork while also encouraging Cork people to help support and shape new and developing artforms.

Graphic and concept design by Alexandra Soboleva. See her work here

RADIO OPEN CALL

@eistradio and Cork Fringe are delighted to announce an open call for applications for three shows across the inaugural Cork Fringe weekend: 9th, 10th and 11th May.

Theme: HOMECOMING

Whether a born and bred Corkonian, new to the city or part of the widespread diasporic community, Homecoming encourages you to respond to Cork city, broadcasting from at home on the Lee or away on the 'fringes'.

Discussion, theatre, music, experimental etc. we welcome applications from across every and all disciplines.

If you have any questions about your submission, please email info@corkfringe.com

Application form in the link in our bio.

DEADLINE: MAY 1

*These shows are compensated.

Icon design by @alexandraasoboleva

Catch the Business Man himself @rob_carlile live in @theroundy on Fringe night 1!

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9 May | 6.30pm
The Roundy
€12.50

Tickets at the link in our bio.

Live from the Everyman, Cork, we are bringing you the double billing of IN A BAD WAY and Happy Capital!

IN A BAD WAY | Isolde Fenton

Grá is sick. With what, she’s not sure. But it’s there, absolutely. Definitely. Maybe. IN A BAD WAY is a darkly comic one-woman show about hypochondria.

Following a young woman named Grá waiting in a walk in GP’s office, this show is written and performed by Isolde Fenton and follows Grá’s panic about different symptoms and the respective moments in her life when she began experiencing them. IN A BAD WAY explores how anxiety can manifest into our physical health, and how debilitating that can be.

Happy Capital | Tommy Harris

Happy Capital is a one-man show that follows Mark (Tommy Harris), a hapless young man who lives with his forgetful grandfather and his shameless uncle Larry on the northside of Cork City. Despite Mark’s dead-end job and the general misgivings of everyone around him, he believes he’s found his golden ticket that will lead to fortune and fame – cryptocurrency – and he won’t let a little thing, like not knowing what it is or how it works, get in his way.

LIVE AT THE EVERYMAN, CORK
SAT 10 MAY, 7.30PM
Tickets €21
everymancork.com | 021 4501673
Phone & online orders are subject to a booking fee

Cork Fringe Co-Founder and Director @daniel_cremin chatted to @mairead_twohig @corks_96fm on The Arts House this past weekend about all things Fringe!

Check out the interview through the link on our story.

Litreacha is a monthly open mic for Queer writers and musicians to share their work and socialise. It is run by two queer writers, Em Egan Reeve @eganreeve and Louis Egan McCutcheon @louisilly3 (no relation), who are passionate about encouraging creativity and connecting the Queer community. Queerness is creative, creativity is queer.

In lieu of Louis‘ time in Japan, Litreacha will be co-hosted by Ciaran Shanahan @ciaransha and the theme of the night is: Periphery

Litreacha is an independently produced event as part of the 2025 Cork Fringe programme.

@_litreacha
@eganreeve
@louisilly3
@ciaransha
@nudescraftandcocktailco

Share a song, poem or story at the super-friendly Rebel Voices; a new singing, poetry and storytelling session open to people from all walks of life, all genders, all ages, all nationalities and all levels of experience.

Led by local singer, musician and composer Lewis Barfoot & jazz-singing enthusiast Seán Kelleher and born out of their mutual desire to get more people singing and sharing songs in community. Starts with a fun and playful warm up at 4pm.

Tickets: Donation based, on the door and online

Rebel Voices is an independently produced event as part of the 2025 Cork Fringe programme.

@rebelvoicescork
@lewisbarfoot
@smortimerk
@theroundy

An immersive journey through Cork’s past, present, and future electronic music scene. Set in the Kino @kinoeventshouse, this experience blends live performance, visual art, and reactive lighting to transform the space into a living artwork.

Celebrating Cork’s vibrant creative community, the event features artists, digital media, and conversations with electronic music pioneers. Rooted in the city’s artistic legacy, it’s more than a performance—it’s a celebration of music’s power to connect, inspire, and evolve.

Line up:
Blaskets Live Audio Visual
Bagheera Live Audio Visual
EMC DJS

Tickets at the link in our bio.

Macallaí Corcaigh is an independently produced event as part of the 2025 Cork Fringe programme.

@electronicmusiccouncil
@dj_bagheera97
@blaskets__
@natmacdj
@mi.koooo
@karuk
@chachoudj
@loriyadj
@swny_music
@questionmarqmusic
@steam_lite_dnb

Opening? Party?

Ana Palindrome is a fictional character brought to life by musicians Niamh Dalton, Ruairí de Búrca and Sara Leslie, performing experimental soft bops and dreamy ballads. Harry Hennessy, with collaborators Muireann Ní Shé and Arthur Greene, presents ‘File na Farraige’, showcasing a sound both ancient and modern, incorporating contemporary experimental techniques with Irish folklore and performance art.

The Social invites you to mingle with artists, performers and new friends in a laid back environment.

Ana Palindrome
File na Farraige
DOSE DJs

DOSE x Fringe @ Dali 8pm-1am (€13)
DOSE Social @ Nudes 7pm-12am (Free)

Tickets at the link in our bio.

Dose x Cork Fringe is an independently produced event as part of the 2025 Cork Fringe programme.

Art by Sara Leslie (Mori)

'How Do You Feel?' is an interactive stand-up comedy show about friendship, life’s problems, and unsolicited advice.

Comedians and best buds Chris McShane @chris_mc_shane and Daniel Lukas @theonlyfunnygerman tackle the audience’s problems and try to find solutions, drawing from anonymous confessions from around the room.

Chris McShane and Daniel Lukas are Cork’s fastest-rising comedians. They have sold out national tours, amassed over 100,000 followers online, and earned multiple awards (Father Ted Comedy Award, BBC New Comedy Award Shortlist) between them. This show marks their first venture as a duo.

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11 May | 7pm
The Roundy
€15
Tickets at the link in our bio.

From Haru and Mick O'Shea, Kuu is an improvisation performance using the technique of Butoh, a dance style originating in Japan after WW2, a dance that concentrates on the here and now, without being stuck in the past or future.

The sound will be improvised on self made instruments and will be played in dialogue with the dance, where the symbiotic relationship is equal and interdependent.

@haru_loves_improvisation
@mickos33
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11 May | 2pm
Lavit Gallery
€12.50

Tickets at the link in our bio.

Andy isn’t a pianist.

A video diary runs throughout the recital, showing him battling his anxieties and vulnerabilities as he battles with the instrument and his own musical shortcomings. Watch and listen as Andy struggles with himself and the piano in increasingly difficult circumstances, playing the best he can as the music stutters to its sticky conclusion.

@andyingamells
@benjaminburnspopstar

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11 May | 7pm
The TDC in the Triskel
€15

Tickets at the link in our bio.

Our Saturday May 10th Programme!

Cork Fringe Festival runs from 9th to the 11th of May 2025. Tickets can be purchased on our website and at the link in our bio.

"To be honest, I'm probably the worst person I know"

Written, directed and performed by Ciara Ní Tuathaigh @ciaramarianituathaigh, The Scent of a Mock Orange is a gritty proclamation of one girl's reckoning with her life on the ten-year anniversary of her mother's suicide. Without any regard for her own grief, Mara navigates the tumultuousness of her life in the wake of a very interesting realisation - it's quite possible that she has become a sex addict.

@sassycowproductions

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10 May | 7pm
The Granary Theatre
€15

Tickets at the link in our bio.

An evening of curious listening to explore the site specific performative installation through both a 14.1 multichannel system and live sound production.

JODOT @jod.oht uses sound to reflect on the relationship between counterculture, heterotopia, interconnectedness, data, and maintenance labour.
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10 May | 7pm
The TDC at the Triskel
€10

Tickets at the link in our bio.

Unlikely friendship blooms on a country road at night. An aging Irish deer, the last of his kind yearns for a scrap with the oncoming traffic of the nearby motorway. Worlds are forever changed when he meets Ída, a runaway farmer, trapped in tradition.

What do you do when you don’t feel like yourself anymore?

A story of identity and roadkill told through puppetry by Kyle Moss (he/him) @kylemossy and Ceilbí @ceilbi_ (they/them). Written by Ceilbí.

@thehorgles
@theatreucc

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10 May | 3pm
The Granary Theatre
€15

Tickets at the link in our bio.

Our Friday May 9th Programme!

Cork Fringe Festival runs from 9th to the 11th of May 2025. Tickets can be purchased on our website and at the link in our bio.

The Everyman, Cork X Cork Fringe

Happy Capital @happycapitalplay is a one-man show that follows Mark (Tommy Harris), a hapless young man who lives with his forgetful grandfather and his shameless uncle Larry on the northside of Cork City.

Despite Mark’s dead-end job and the general misgivings of everyone around him, he believes he’s found his golden ticket that will lead to fortune and fame – cryptocurrency – and he won’t let a little thing, like not knowing what it is or how it works, get in his way.

Tommy wrote and performed in Happy Capital at last year's Dublin Fringe Festival @dublinfringefest, earning three award nominations, including Best New Writing.
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LIVE AT THE EVERYMAN, CORK
SAT 10 MAY, 7.30PM
Tickets €21
everymancork.com | 021 4501673
Phone & online orders are subject to a booking fee

The Everyman, Cork X Cork Fringe

Grá is sick. With what, she’s not sure. But it’s there, absolutely. Definitely. Maybe. IN A BAD WAY is a darkly comic one-woman show about hypochondria.

Following a young woman named Grá waiting in a walk in GP’s office, this show is written and performed by Isolde Fenton @isoldefenton and follows Grá’s panic about different symptoms and the respective moments in her life when she began experiencing them. IN A BAD WAY explores how anxiety can manifest into our physical health, and how debilitating that can be.

*IN A BAD WAY is part of a double billing with Happy Capital.

@inabadwayplay
@corktheatre

IN A BAD WAY was developed as part of SHOW: A WORK IN PROGRESS with Cork Theatre Collective (CTC) @corktheatre, November 2024, using the SPACE TO THINK bursary award in September 2024.
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LIVE AT THE EVERYMAN, CORK
SAT 10 MAY, 7.30PM
Tickets €21
everymancork.com | 021 4501673
Phone & online orders are subject to a booking fee

This one-woman show by Sarah Rose is a love letter to her younger self in her journey as a performer.

Through a selection of songs from Little Shop of Horrors, A Chorus Line, Jane Eyre and more, Sarah Rose is recounting the lessons she’s learnt about the business, life and herself in what she calls a musical journal entry...because she’s not famous enough to call it a memoir.
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LIVE AT THE EVERYMAN, CORK
SAT 10 MAY, 5.30PM
Tickets €11
everymancork.com | 021 4501673
Phone & online orders are subject to a booking fee

Sorcha Browning’s @sorchabrowning film installation Eden. is on a 9-minute loop and is displayed across two sculptural screens. Each character’s video performance plays out simultaneously, and rather than instructing the gaze of the viewer through the scene, the characters capture attention through sound, gesture and physical expression – their “tastes,” each holding symbolic or cultural resonance that hold within them histories and presents of representation and power relations. There is a perceived freedom when considering representation – especially of the self – that often falls short of expectations.

Whilst our performativity increases what is digitally known about us to increase profitability – what are the “stuffs” we are actually gaining from this constant engagement?

Eden. was recently shown at the RHA in Dublin (Nov–Jan 2024/25) and Sorcha was awarded the RDS Taylor Award, Graphic Studio Dublin Emerging Artist Award, OpenEar Graduate Award, and National Sculpture Factory Graduate Award (2024) through the display of this work. She is currently in residence at the National Sculpture Factory and has an upcoming residency with the Graphic Studio Dublin.

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9, 10 & 11 May | 11am - 4pm
Laneway Gallery
Free - donation to artists encouraged.

Dreamscape from Ailbhe Reilly-Tuite @tart_fart_ is simultaneously a canvas and projection screen, creating an interactive game of ‘trace the dot’. When first installed, the canvas is blank, and as more visitors trace the dot, an underlying image slowly reveals itself.

The animation projected and its accompanying sound piece take us through a looping journey of death and rebirth. Visitors are welcome to engage with this journey by drawing on the screen and entering the playful and meditative space provided by the animation and sound.

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9, 10 & 11 May | 11am - 4pm
Laneway Gallery
Free - donation to artists encouraged.

More information at the link in our bio

Described as “Your favourite comedian’s least favourite comedian”. Allie @allie.orourke is gonna serve you the one thing she can’t afford; c*nt. Join her as she comedically slaloms through topics such as culchiedom, Transness and her years as a whitewater kayaker.”
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9 May | 8.45pm
The TDC at the Triskel
€12.50

Tickets at the link in our bio

Ross O'Donoghue (tour support for: Dylan Moran, Shane Daniel Byrne) presents: YOU'RE TOAST!

A four-act hour of alternative comedy in which the CEO of Subway, Alexander Subway attempts to solve a simple problem: Fire 30% of his employees? Or make slightly less money?

Show Me The Funny 2025 - Runner Up
"Loved the sandwich thing" - Tony Cantwell

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9 May | 7pm
The TDC
€12.50

Tickets at the link in our bio

A one-man concert of live-looped original tunes, @rob_carlile presents an eclectic mix of alternative, comedic and strange songs. Performing live with a loop pedal, guitar, piano, effect and vocal effect pedals, Rob creates a full mix of layers, showcasing his signature humour and a joyful experience that is both funny and emotionally resonant.
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9 May | 6.30pm
The Roundy
€12.50

Tickets at the link in our bio

Sit down. Listen. You don't have to say anything.

I understand you have been having a difficult time. I am sorry to hear that. I can help.

The Answer from @aimsir.theatre is a site-specific audio theatre piece about climate anxiety and the commercialisation of self-help.

Written by Aoife Cronin @aoifejcronin
Composition and Sound Design by Alessandro Loro @_aleloro_
Performed by Rachael Dowling @rachaelmdowling
Produced by Jack Scott Shanley
Recording Engineering by Jack Walsh
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9 May | 4 slots from 6pm - 8pm
Marina Market
€10

Tickets at the link in our bio

We’re launched!

A huge thank you to @heinekenireland for their generous support of our launch event, we had a wonderful time in the Kiln hospitality suite last night.

And another special thank you to @lewisbarfoot for her rousing rendition of 'The Fringe Circus’ by @juliancaddy3, and @edenbunbun for the lovely soundtrack for the night!
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Tickets are now on sale at corkfringe.com

Photos by @davidwalsh.photos

Introducing our Cork Fringe 2025 Programme!

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Thank you to all our artists and venues, onwards to MAY!

@isoldefenton
@inabadwayplay
@happycapitalplay
@sarahposal
@mynameross
@allie.orourke
@rob_carlile
@thehorgles
@andyingamells
@haru_loves_improvisation
@mickos33
@sorchabrowning
@ciaramarianituathaigh @sassycowproductions
@dosecork
@aimsir.theatre
@tart_fart_
@theonlyfunnygerman
@chris_mc_shane
@coislaoiproductions
@electronicmusiccouncil
@lewisbarfoot
@rebelvoicescork
@_litreacha
@fordesbar

Our inaugural Cork Fringe venues!

@theeverymancork
@lavitgallery
@fordesbar
@theroundy
@lanewaygalleryireland
@corktheatre @triskel_cork
@marinamarketcork
@theatreucc
@kinoeventshouse
@nudescraftandcocktailco
@dalicork

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