Hammergrin's most recent show - Hollander - was proudly supported by the Arts Council.
Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 12:05AM We are delighted to learn that HOLLANDER has been nominated for an Irish Times Theatre Award in the BEST PRODUCTION category!
THANK YOU!
And warmest congratulations to all of the other nominees.
Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 12:56AM Hammergrin's Hollander was recently mentioned in the Irish Times as a cultural highlight of 2009 here and here!
Some quotes:
from Loughlin Deegan
Director of the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival"The most exciting development of the year was the low-key revolution that is being staged by Ireland’s younger theatre-makers, from Hammergrin’s Hollander at Cork Midsummer Festival... A confident new generation of artists has emerged and is making exciting, original work that is determinedly international in outlook and unfettered by convention or tradition. It is essential that these companies and artists are supported and encouraged through the difficult years that lie ahead."
and
from LIZ MEANEY
"Cork Midsummer Festival’s Scottish showcase presented the wonderful Midsummer , a musical romance, while Hammergrin transformed a townhouse into the residence of a 400-year-old man for its production, Hollander, the festival’s hottest ticket."
Cork City Arts Officer
The spread also printed the poster image for Hollander. We were delighted to be mentioned - especially alongside the likes of Leonard Cohen and Mad Men. Thank you!
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 at 4:18PM 
New photos of the Hollander set, taken by Cork based photographer Pamela Condell, have been added to our gallery. Enjoy!
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 12:28PM 
New production shots of Hollander have been added to our gallery. Enjoy!
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 12:14PM by Mary Leland
Audiences may have become accustomed to the idea of a play within a play, but a house within a house is a relatively new idea and it is not long before the 14 members of the public allowed to walk through Hammergrin’s production of Hollander(at 8 North Mall) realise that nothing in this production is as it seems, least of all the doors. Written by John McCarthy, Ciaran O Conaill and Sara-Jane Power, the piece brings to a kind of life the former proprietor of a mansion decaying even as the play unfolds.
Henry William Hollander, of Cork’s North Mall, has two obsessions: the disappearance of his wife, who may or may not have been accidentally entombed in the cellar; and the coincidence of this event with the great “Battle of the Starlings”, which darkened the skies over Cork city in 1621.
Chronology is not much respected in this script; instead, history is engaged in a series of arbitrary references that make a kind of sense in a scenario in which fireplaces move or hang upside down, chandeliers glow from the floor and visitors to the highly decorated chapel are blindfolded.
Confidently directed by Sara-Jane Power, and with John McCarthy both pathetic and terrifying as the distracted Hollander, the production gleefully reimagines the 18th-century house in which it is located, thanks to designer Ronan Fitzgibbon with obvious apologies to the Irish Georgian Society.