There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.
From Fiona Shaw
A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.
People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.
Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.
There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
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