{"id":138333,"date":"2025-11-13T22:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/138333\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T22:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:10:08","slug":"lyras-homecoming-gig-cork-theatre-and-a-stephen-king-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/138333\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyra’s homecoming gig, Cork theatre, and a Stephen King remake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bandon\u2019s finest Lyra makes a triumphant homecoming to Cork on Friday night as part of a national tour that will conclude in Dublin next month. In front of what\u2019s likely to be a real mix of young and old in the crowd, expect to hear Weird Club among some new songs from an album due out in 2026 – \u201cfingers crossed\u201d, she told Weekend – as well as the hits that have helped make her a star over the last decade.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cinema: The Running Man\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n General release, Friday, November 14\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a near-future society, The Running Man is the top-rated show on television. It\u2019s a deadly competition where contestants, known as Runners, must survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins, with every move broadcast to a bloodthirsty public. It\u2019s a remake of a 1987 film – originally adapted from a Stephen King novel – that starred Arnold Schwarzaneggar. Glen Powell, fresh from his starring role in the six-part comedy Chad Powers on Disney+, is in the lead role while Edgar Wright directs.<\/p>\n

Theatre: The Mirror Stage\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"BrokentalkersBrokentalkers presents The Mirror Stage at The Everyman, created with and inspired by people who have lived through psychosis<\/p>\n

\n The Everyman, Tuesday, November 18\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brokentalkers presents The Mirror Stage, created with and inspired by people who have lived through psychosis. Written by Feidlim Cannon and directed by Gary Keegan, it weaves images, memories and stories of startling clarity together with movement, music and arresting visual imagery to create a performance that attempts the impossible \u2013 to make the invisible visible and the unspeakable speak. A talk takes place following the performance.<\/p>\n

Festival: Quiet Lights\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"NiallNiall Breslin plays Triskel Christchurch as part of Quiet Lights 2025<\/p>\n

\n Various venues, Thursday, November 20\u00a0<\/p>\n

The sixth edition of Quiet Lights, like a more gentle Other Voices that takes place across Cork city, kicks off with two shows on Thursday. Fiddle player Caoimh\u00edn \u00d3 Raghallaigh plays Coughlan\u2019s, off the back of a great new collaborative album with Se\u00e1n Mac Erlaine entitled Old Segotia. Meanwhile, Triskel Christchurch will play host to Niall \u2018Bressie\u2019 Breslin, who recently released a gentle solo album that points at a more introspective direction, The Place That Has Never Been Wounded.<\/p>\n

Streaming: The Death of Bunny Munro\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"MattMatt Smith in The Death of Bunny Munro.<\/p>\n

\n Sky\/NOW, Thursday, November 20\u00a0<\/p>\n

A six-part series adapted from Nick Cave\u2019s novel of the same name, Matt Smith stars as womanising salesman Bunny Munro, who, after his wife\u2019s suicide, takes his young son on a chaotic door-to-door road trip. As Bunny starts to unravel, he realises he must do something to rescue his son from his own outdated notions of what it is to be a man; to save him from becoming another Bunny Munro. The series was written by Bafta winner\u202fPete Jackson\u202f( Somewhere Boy), while Nick composed the score alongside long-time collaborator\u202fWarren Ellis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bandon\u2019s finest Lyra makes a triumphant homecoming to Cork on Friday night as part of a national tour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,6405,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-138333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-music-movies-reviews-munster","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}