LATCH
Created by John McCarthy and Sara-Jane Power
Produced in association with the Cork Midsummer Festival 2011. With support from the Arts Council.
A haunting vision of suburbia, staged in a row of empty houses outside the city, as night falls.
“This performance by Hammergrin is an enticing experience.” - This is Tomorrow
“Latch…interweaves a linear narrative with elements of the surreal, creating a production that is by turns hilarious, surprising, thought-provoking and inscrutable.” - Irish Theatre Magazine
With Ciaran Bermingham, Charlie Kelly, Ben Mulcahy, Róisín O’Neill, Doug Quealey and Raymond Scannell.
Directed by Sara-Jane Power and assistant director John McCarthy
Lighting by Eoin Winning
Original Music and Sound by Ciaran O Conaill
Set design consultant Ronan Fitzgibbon
Dramaturge David Leddy
HOLLANDER
Created by John McCarthy, Ciaran O Conaill and Sara-Jane Power
Produced in association with the Cork Midsummer Festival 2009.With support from the Arts Council. A rescued abridged and weightless history of Cork City at Number 8, North Mall, Cork. With venue support from the Cork Gay Project.
"Theatre mavericks...a brilliant performance by John McCarthy...Highly creative work. It's worth the scramble for tickets." - Evening Echo
"Confidently directed by Sara-Jane Power, and with John McCarthy both pathetic and terrifying as the distracted Hollander, the production gleefully reimagines the 18th-century house in which it is located, thanks to designer Ronan Fitzgibbon." - Irish Times
With John McCarthy, Una Kirwan, Irene Kelleher and Paul Mulcahy.
Directed by Sara-Jane Power
Original Music and Sound by Ciaran O Conaill
Set Design by Ronan Fitzgibbon
Lighting Design by Eoin Winning
K.: The IOWA Project
Created by the Company.
Produced in association with the Cork Midsummer Festival 2008. With support from the City Council.
Inspired by the work of Philip K. Dick, K.: The Iowa Project follows a covert 1950s mission in an isolated warehouse as the team members begin to suspect each other and soon realise a far broader surveillance is in place…
Devised by the company (in alphabetical order): John McCarthy, Ciaran O Conaill, Lyndel Dowd, Ronan Fitzgibbon, Liam Heaslip, Karen Kelleher, Ruairí McKernan, Sara Jane Power and Eoin Winning.
"K: The Iowa Project literally jumps out at you. From the start, it subverts expectations, delivering a project that is like nothing you might have imagined. The show also profiles the young Hammergrin Theatre Company as a feisty, innovative outfit that is happy to take theatrical risks, and to have a lot of fun in doing so. This young company shows great strength of spirit. If there is a ‘rough around the edges’ feel to this work, it does not disguise its freshness, its creativeness, nor indeed its immediacy." - Irish Theatre Magazine
"One of the best new companies on the Cork theatrical scene." - Irish Examiner
Other Co-Productions:
APOCALYPSE, THEN (2007)
by Ciaran Fitzpatrick and John McCarthy
Directed by Sara-Jane Power
Commissioned by the Everyman Palace Theatre Studio
Starring Raymond Scannell and Paul Mulcahy
Set Design and Construction by Ruairi McKernan
Lighting by Ruairi Hennebry
"Witty and intelligent" - Irish Examiner
"Feisty and engaging" - Evening Echo
THE MORNING AFTER OPTIMISM (2006)
by Tom Murphy
Presented by Granary Theatre New Directors Festival
Directed by Sara Jane Power
Produced by John McCarthy
With Paul Mulcahy, Una Kirwan, Ciaran Fitzpatrick and Lyndel Dowd
Lighting by Kath Geraghty
Set design and construction by Ruairi McKernan
Production Team: Timothy Hannon, John McCarthy, Colum McKernan and Eoin Winning
“Highly enjoyable…Director Sara Jane Power wrestles with the script and comes out fighting. Tom Murphy’s work well served.” - Liam Heylin, Evening Echo