In the final weeks of rehearsal This Beautiful Village's writer Lisa Tierney-Keogh talks the truth of her debut play on the Abbey stage, the knockbacks, kickbacks & comebacks involved in power plays and how laughter is the best medicine when blowing up the canon.
This Beautiful Village 2-14 September 2019 Abbey Theatre
Writer: Lisa Tierney-Keogh
Director: David Horan
Cast: Pom Boyd, Ruth Bradley, Michael Ford-FitzGerald, Damian Kearney, Bethan Mary-James & Aidan McArdle.
Recorded on Thursday 22 August 2019 at the Abbey Theatre.
Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly
Sound operator: Derek Conaghy
09/2019 Broadcast 26/08/2019
The business of theatre quote - Paco Tolson (c)