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Bootboy: Plausibly social networking

There’s an important play in the Dublin Theatre Festival, Gina Moxley’s The Crumb Trail, by Pan Pan Theatre Company. I hope you get to see it. I’m such a fan of the company that I was asked to write the programme note, which was a pleasure. While writing it, I had to reflect on the [...]

Older gay men

In trying to find an older gay person for my little documentary, I realised how difficult it was to find older gay people to tell their stories. Luckily for me, however, I found Tony, who is a gem in the film. But he only agreed to take part six days before the shoot!
Along the [...]

Review: Woman and Scarecrow – Peacock Theatre – Dublin Theatre Festival

I was a member of the actors’ co-operative that produced Marina Carr’s first play, Low in the Dark. With astonishing confidence, the 25 year old Marina came in every morning to our rehearsal space, a freezing near-derelict warehouse in Temple Bar, with two or three typed pages of freshly-minted script for us to work on. [...]