Today on NollaignamBan as 'Banlaoch' Sabina Higgins launches a year-long calendar of events to mark 50 years of the NWCI, we take a look back at an interview with Ireland's philosophical first lady ...
, we take a look back at an interview with the notoriously private actor and activist in 2015. Ireland’s philosophical first lady tells ANNE HARRIS how her background in drama and devotion to the arts, benefits her work at the Áras …The foyer of the Fitzwilliam Hotel is dominated by twin portraits of women in resplendent garments but no faces. I was rather pleased with myself for spotting the potential here.
Meanwhile, another artist is hovering. Kevin Thornton arrives between courses to explain our choices – sashimi of wild salmon, fermented vegetables and seaweed, followed by king scallops, and finished with peach melba in poitín and fuchsia, the same for both of us. He paints a picture of sensuous produce from exotic Irish place names and each platter he sends out is a still life in itself. I can see he is gratified by her delight at the dillisk.
I know that Stanislavski is the father of method acting, but Sabina is clearly talking about something more far reaching. Her explanation: “It involves imagination, relaxation, observation – through that system you evolve,” didn’t quite cut it for me. “Later she demonstrates: “It’s just listening really. It’s creating the space to put your thoughts out.
If this sounds hippy dippy, it was far from it. “Remember, in the 1960s there used to be happenings. Well, if we had a happening, we chose it to be a happening. It was a whole technique – all layered with history and all the things to get you conscious.” Politics, in Sabina’s world, is a classic concept – it’s community, virtue, frailty and the citizen’s right to pursue happiness. She talks about gender violence and like a true artist, she is fearless about confronting the dark side. “From my own experience in drama I understand the frustration that makes a person turn on the one nearest to them.” She cites projects like the Man Up exhibition which shows men respecting women ultimately leads them to respect themselves.
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