The Tony and Olivier winner feels a huge affinity with Rex Ryan’s ‘fearless’ Dublin company Glass Mask, which is premiering his play Men’s Business
Playwright Simon Stephens: ‘Our sense of self is defined by the stories we tell ourselves. My family told themselves we were Irish’
Regretting working outside the home: ‘We’re told to parent like we don’t work. And work like we don’t parent’ “I wanted to make the kind of theatre Glass Mask were making. They’re at the start of their work, and they’re punk, they’re flinty, they’re unapologetic. They’ve got this space, and it’s not a gargantuan Broadway house, but there’s a realness to the space.”
“I don’t know about the historical nature of theatre in Ireland, but in England after the second World War, theatre was a place for celebration and entertainment. I’m not knocking that. I love a great night out. But I also think it can be a place where difficult questions are asked. “The cafe is great. I love the moment they clear the plates, close the curtain, drop the lights. You don’t anticipate acting at that level, or art of that toughness, and the counterpoint between the rather lovely world and then art of the highest calibre is really surprising but really thrilling.”
“You know, so much of our sense of self is defined by the stories we tell ourselves about who we are. And the story my family told themselves about who they are was definitely that it was an Irish family. And some fragment of myself, sense of self, was part of that.”“My uncle sent me an amazing photograph from 1923 of my grandmother as a child, outside this house with her sisters. It’s a terraced house, and there was seven of them raised there. There’s something very moving about it.
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