DISCO PIGS, POOL (NO WATER) and More Set For The Everyman 2026 Season

The Everyman has announced its 2026 season which includes: Harry Potter star Evanna Lynch performing in an empty swimming pool beneath Cork’s Metropole Hotel in Pool (No Water) during Cork Midsummer Festival, a major new production of Disco Pigs directed by its writer Enda Walsh for the first time, and a new musical by Mick Flannery, The House Must Win, featuring Tommy Tiernan.

Pool (No Water) by Mark Ravenhill, directed by The Everyman’s Artistic Director Des Kennedy, with movement by Luke Murphy, will be performed in the empty swimming pool at the Metropole Hotel in June as part of this year’s Cork Midsummer Festival. The production will feature Irish author, performer and Harry Potter star Evanna Lynch. Evanna said:

"I'm thrilled to be working on this new production of Pool (No Water) and cannot wait to spend my summer in a swimming pool in Cork! Des Kennedy's dynamism, humour and appetite to push creative boundaries is as infectious as it is exciting. I think this is a particularly pertinent and mischievous play to stage in Ireland, where we have an interesting habit of cultivating talented artists and then tormenting them with the curse of begrudgery. I'm personally excited to interrogate this tense but somehow crucial relationship between creatives and their haters, and how we cope when life goes well for some."

Director Des Kennedy said: “It is brilliant to be working with Luke Murphy, The Metropole Hotel and Cork Midsummer Festival in such a unique Cork location and it is hugely exciting to have the extraordinary Evanna Lynch as part of the company. I’ve seen Evanna perform on stages in London and New York and she is an incredibly authentic, powerful and magnetic actor, so I am thrilled to be welcoming her back to Ireland to make her Irish theatre debut.”

The Everyman will also produce a major new 30th anniversary production of Disco Pigs this winter, as part of its EVERYMAN MADE programme of in-house productions. Disco Pigs launched the careers of its writer, Tony Award winner Enda Walsh, and actors Cillian Murphy and Eileen Walsh when it premiered in Cork in 1996. For the first time in its history, Disco Pigs will be directed by Enda himself.

Enda said: “Shockingly it’s 30 years since Disco Pigs premiered in the city that inspired it. A city that was so supportive of me and Pat Kiernan and the young Corcadorca who made such an iconic and memorable production. It’s really thrilling to be back and in the Everyman to direct this new production of Disco Pigs. I can’t wait for it all” 

The Everyman is also partnering with Rosa Productions on the world premiere of Mick Flannery’s musical The House Must Win, with Tommy Tiernan making his musical theatre debut alongside Ferdia Pelo Walsh, Niall McNamee and Tabitha Smyth and directed by Julie Kelliher. Based on the concept album Evening Train, written in Cork more than 20 years ago, this story of family, love, and loss is returning home. 

Other EVERYMAN MADE highlights include: The first-ever sharing of Éadaoin O’Donoghue and John O’Brien’s new opera Cú Chulainn  - a sequel to their hugely successful 5-star opera from 2022 Morrígan - and during Cork Midsummer Festival a series of Up Front readings of new plays written by Everyman commissioned playwrights and directed by leading theatre makers including Pat Kiernan (Corcadorca), and BAFTA winning comedy writer and producer Lisa McGee (Derry Girls).

Speaking about the HERE TOGETHER season Des Kennedy, Artistic Director and Co-CEO of The Everyman said, “Our HERE TOGETHER season is rooted in Cork and made for Cork audiences and shows that The Everyman is vibrant, welcoming, deeply connected to the city and, above all, a place where we gather – together.”

Brian Fenton, Executive Director and Co-CEO of The Everyman, said, “2025 was a year of ambition and transformation for The Everyman. In 2026, we are building on that momentum with a courageous and ambitious programme that brings internationally recognised Irish artists to Cork, invests in new work and local artists, and continues to place The Everyman at the heart of the cultural life of Cork. We are enormously grateful to our principal funders The Arts Council and Cork City Council, as well as our friends, business supporters in the VQ and across the city and county, and (most importantly) our audience, who make all our work possible.”

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