Cork Midsummer Festival Brochure

THE LAST CARGO CULT
This is the story of Daisey’s journey to a remote South
Pacific island whose people worship America and its cargo.
This narrative is woven against a searing examination of
the international financial crisis that gripped the globe at
the same moment. Confronting the financial system that
dominates our world, Daisey wrestles with the largest
questions of what the collapse means, and what it can tell
us about our deepest values. Part adventure story and part
memoir, he explores each culture to unearth a human truth
between the seemingly primitive and achingly modern.
“Perfectly balances humor and genuine anger…an
incredibly ballsy and humble indictment of the
banking system, American materialism and the
audience.” VARIETY
HALF MOON Theatre
Tuesday 22 — Thursday 24 June, 8pm
Friday 25 June, 9:30pm
Saturday 26 June, 7pm
Tickets €16/€12 concession
FROM AWAY
What does it mean to belong to a place? Daisey has travelled
all over the world, from Tajikistan to remote Pacific islands.
Now he’s in Ireland for the first time, and he’s spent weeks
interviewing people from all walks of life to tell an honest
story that tries to bridge the Irish mythology he knows
from America to a foreign homeland he’s never known.
Somewhere between Billy Connolly and Hunter S. Thompson,
Daisey dives into the messy, complicated heart of Ireland
with dark humour and irreverent wit, holding a mirror up for
us to gaze into if we choose.
“Daisey’s skill is that he is able to talk about the
historical and make it human, the personal and make
it universal, so that the listener is both informed and
transformed.” PAPER MAGAZINE
HALF MOON Theatre
Sunday 27 June, 6:30pm
Tickets €16/€12 concession
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