Winner of Best Site Specific Show, Best Company, and Best Tech Team of 2025 by The Arts Review
PRESS QUOTES FOR STITCH- CORK MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL 2025
STITCH: Review Irish Examiner - Marjorie Brennan
★★★★
"Irene Kelleher shines in dark tale"
"A remarkable performance....truly heartrending....ingenious use of rhyme"
"It is a feat of extraordinary commitment."
"Kelleher's vision is realised with skill and verve by director Regina Crowley, while production, overseen by
Michael-Anthony Greene, is outstanding."
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STITCH: Review The Arts Review - Chris O'Rourke
★★★★
"Kelleher's wildest, bravest, most compelling performance to date."
"Deeply haunting, and Mighty Oak Productions' superlative team gives Alice’s story life."
"Kelleher's performance is a tour de force."
"Kelleher’s breathtaking performance, Cormac O' Connors astonishing lights and sounds, Jenny White's
insanely detailed set and props, and Valencia Gambardella’s magnificent costumes and masks...so brilliantly
executed you might think you're on the set of a horror movie. But this is a site-specific, time-specific,
woman-specific story concerned with real-life times and themes. The horror being it could've happened, and
that similar horrors, and worse, often did. Director Regina Crowley swirling up a witch's brew of
extraordinary potency."
Winner of Best Site Specific Show, Best Company, and Best Tech Team of 2025 by The Arts Review
STITCH
Written and performed by Irene Kelleher
Directed by Regina Crowley
Sound & Lighting Design by Cormac O' Connor
Set Design Jenny White
Production Manager: Michael Anthony Greene
Costume Design by Valentia Gambardella
PROMO TRAILER
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYHagjYGBOA
After a sell-out, critically acclaimed run at Cork Midsummer Festival 2025,
"Samhain night, where spirits roam
Something crawls into my bones…"
Alice is in the basement for seven months.
Mending, stitching, and repair.
Rip, cut, stitch- “nothing’s broken can’t be fixed.”
The forgotten girl with her face all torn. Only a shadow for shame and scorn.
Samhain night, she will be reborn.
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