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To The Lighthouse review: A gloriously ambitious and inventive production at Cork Midsummer Fest
Marina Carr s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s modernist masterpiece combined film and theatre
Declan Conlon and Aoife Duffin in To The Lighthouse at the Everyman. Picture Darragh Kane
Sun, 27 Jun, 2021 - 21:05
Marjorie Brennan “What is the meaning of life?” asks Lily Briscoe in To The Lighthouse. It may be, as she says, a “simple question” but it is one that underpins this profound meditation on life, love, loss, the meaning of art and the role of a woman in society.
This adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s modernist masterpiece by Marina Carr is a hybrid of film and theatre, a world premiere recorded on The Everyman Stage as part of the Cork Midsummer Festival. What it lacks in immediacy in terms of a live streamed performance, it gains in terms of creative latitude, with director Annabelle Comyn bringing her distinctive and inventive vision to the production.