More than a decade after his last appearance, the actor has found a way to talk about what happened - and from a startling place
More than a decade after his last appearance, the actor has found a way to talk about what happened – and from a startling place
The startling thing about Hanly talking about this is that he’s doing so from a stage. Thirteen years later, here he is writing, and performing in, a play about it all. Hanly is managing it with crutches of sorts: a script in hand, or reading autocue. There are two other actors and sophisticated stage tech.
Before the performance he had walked outside around the theatre with the show’s stage manager, Emily Waters. “I felt fine. I felt that frisson, those nerves you have. I felt: This is something of value, and lots of this works; maybe all of it works. And: don’t fuck up.”development funding for one, though it wasn’t made. But his experience was in theatre, so that’s where he turned.
Suddenly unable to act, Hanly lost his income too. “I was proud of being able to earn a living exclusively from acting for about 30 years, and when that source of income stopped it was very difficult in lots of ways. My pride, self-esteem, and literally not having money in my pocket. What does that mean to you, when you’re not earning and you’re not contributing as much to the family coffers? With no hope in sight of being able to. And years and years passing.
“Most of my friends are actors. I don’t want to be slagging off actors! They’re my people, my community, or they have been. The show features darker moments from inside my brain over the last 12 years. For example, the scenes with therapists, though they may be comic – I hope they are – actually, that’s me going to a therapist and it not working. But I’m not saying therapists are all crap.” He smiles.“People actually have said, ‘We miss you. We’d love you back.
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