Quotes

Ireland has no history of sitcom - there have been a few but they've been so tragic that we don't talk about them.

My first brush with Brecht [Bertolt Brecht] was a production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle which is still fondly remembered by people who saw it. I just loved it as there was something anarchic about him as Brecht is a slippery thing. He will not give you any easy answers, and no-one stands out as either a paragon of virtue or someone you'd like to be.

Brecht as a slippery playwright doesn't offer you any solutions, but what he does, he'll rattle you round and then off you go into the night and talk it about yourselves. It's unsettling and enormously entertaining, so to be doing it with a radical left company, it's perfect for me to return to what I consider my roots. As you performer you can't beat it.