The West Cork Fit Up Theatre Festival is back! With 9 plays taking place in numerous venues over the space of 4 weeks, this year’s festival is arguably our most ambitious to date.

Established in 2009 in West Cork by Geoff Gould, the Fit-Up Theatre Festivals provide rural communities, where there is a lack of accessibility to professional theatre, an opportunity to sample some of the wealth and talent professional theatre has to offer. There are currently four Fit-up Theatre Festivals annually: the Blackwater Valley Fit-up Theatre Festival in late January, early February; the West Waterford Fit-up Theatre Festival in May, the West Cork Fit-up Theatre Festival which runs during July and August and the North East Galway Fit-up Theatre Festival in September and October.

The Fit-up Theatre Festival is based on the Fit-up’s of the 1950’s when professional theatre companies travelled to rural villages performing in make shift venues during the summer.