A Serving of Pinter is a theatrical presentation by Clinic Media and MooCow Theatre. The production is a compilation of three of Harold Pinter’s short plays. A Serving of Pinter is a celebration of the writing career, which spanned more than 50 years, of one of the most influential modern dramatists.

Trouble In The Works, a sketch reminiscent of Monty Phython, pits a manager of an industrial factory against an employee representing a dissatisfied workforce. Pinter plays with the leader/follower relationship balance beautifully.

Victoria Station, an acclaimed black comedy, introduces us to the struggles of a minicab controller trying to communicate his instructions to driver 274.

One For The Road is a commentary on the terrors of dictatorship. The sadistic Nicolas interviews the members of a family one by one. Pinter’s ambiguous sense of menace is in full swing.

Clinic Media’s Eoin Ó hAnnracháin and MooCow Theatre’s Nicholas Kavanagh have previously collaborated on projects such as: Howie The Rookie, Vandal, Fantasy Football, Trophy Trouble, and Spell It.  In September and October 2011 they will present A Serving of Pinter in the Cork Opera House’s Half Moon Theatre and The Forum, Waterford.

Clinic Media was established in 2005 with three main aims. 1) To create productions of the highest standard. 2) To further develop the theatre and film industries in Cork and 3) To create work that both challenges and entertains its audience. To date Clinic have mixed the works of established writers like Mark O’Rowe (Howie The Rookie, 2007) and Enda Walsh (Bedbound, reading 2011), with new writing such as Kenneth Hickey’s Night Swimming (2008) and Jody O’Neill’s Breakfast (2009).

Nicholas and Patrick Kavanagh set up MooCow Theatre with an aim to produce new and existing work through the medium of theatre, film and TV. Since their re-launch in 2011, under the artistic direction of Nicholas, MooCow has been developing two new exciting projects: Morbid and Sons a quirky web-based drama, and Under the Weather, a comic play.

We are delighted to have a fantastic creative team, including designers Deirdre Dwyer (costume) and Joe Harney (sound).

With the help of crowd funding we can generate the money we need to make this production a reality. Our goal is to raise €2,500, which will cover 25% of the production costs such as rehearsal space, set designing, and construction materials. The other 75% comes from Cork City Council - Arts Office, private sponsorship, and the companies own investments.

Your contribution will allow us to spend four weeks of full-time rehearsals creating an innovative production of Pinter’s incredible writing. It will also allow two emerging companies the opportunity to bring their work on to a new level through the exposure of performing in the Cork Opera House’s Half Moon Theatre.

Thank you for supporting the arts!