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Sara Keating: Cork Midsummer Festival offers a celebration of cross-disciplinary collaborations
Highlight of the annual multi-disciplinary arts festival this year is Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days, with Cork actress Siobhán McSweeney in the role of the playwright’s iconic heroine Winnie
Today marks the summer solstice, when the northern hemisphere has its full tilt towards the sun. It is the longest day of the year. In Ireland the sun rises at 4.55am and sets at 9.57pm, but across northern Europe there is almost continuous daylight for the 24-hour cycle.
In Samuel Beckett’s 1961 play Happy Days, the action unfolds under the harsh bright lights of a ceaseless sun. Day and night are one and the same ...
