Red Sun

By Ray Scannell

Member of Cork Children’s Chorus performing in ‘Red Sun’. Credit Michael MacSweeney, Provision. ‘Red Sun’ was a musical drama commissioned by, and celebrating the opening of, Cork 2005 European Capital of Culture 2005. It was a fantasy story, performed by a cast of the Cork’s Children’s Chorus, which imagined a world dependant on colour and rhythm to survive.

Member of Cork Children’s Chorus performing in ‘Red Sun’. Credit Michael MacSweeney, Provision.

“The sun of each city glows only because of that city’s unique colour and rhythm. By ignoring other cultures, suns fade. But by sharing each other’s colours and rhythms, cities thrive and deepen the strength of their own rhythm or pulse (identity) and colour (culture).”

Falel, the young hero of the story, took the audience on a journey through the different cities in his search for his own Red City’s rhythm keeper.