Last year, the former Irish Times columnist's work on her new play was interrupted by a double cancer diagnosis. Now, she is back at the Abbey Theatre, rehearsing for her radical adaptation of Maxim Gorky's Children of the Sun.
Last year the former Irish Times columnist’s work on her new play, for Rough Magic and the Abbey, was interrupted by a double cancer diagnosis
Home of the Year winner revealed: restored 1920s redbrick ‘full of style and bold design’ lands the big prize Once back in Dublin she began attending acting classes at the Oscar theatre school, after seeing an ad in a paper. She loved it. Eventually, she, David Byrne,and Michèle Forbes officially established Wet Paint. She went on to act in numerous plays. She loved the process of being in a rehearsal room, deconstructing and reconstructing plays by writers such as. But it still hadn’t occurred to her to write.
So at the outset of her writing career, with a young family, Fannin was, understandably, “terrified of hurting my children with my work”. By the time Hopscotch, her childhood memoir, was published, in 2015, her father had died. Her brother, Robert, sat with her mother while she read the manuscript in case she had questions. It must have been a difficult read, but she didn’t ask for any changes. “She just said, ‘No, this is Hilary’s story.’”
There was a lot of homework to do. “One of the main characters is a scientist. I had to figure out: what branch of science? So then I got interested in ‘time’. Lynne and I went to see Iggy McGovern, a professor up in Trinity, an amazing man. And he said, ‘You know, there is no agreement on what time is.’ And I thought, Oh, that’s brilliant ... I said, ‘Iggy, if there’s one thing you fear, what would it be?’ He’s a terribly nice man, and he said, ‘Black holes.
Did she write about it? “I know I’ll end up writing about it in one form or another, but I think it’s going to take time,” she says. “I kept notes all the way through. The bottom line about writing is, it’s about control. It’s about having some control over your past and managing your past. It’s about being able to think forwards with some clarity ... It’s like that internal room that I talked about earlier. I rooted myself internally ... So with the cancer I have a notebook. I have voice notes.
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