The Sean O'Casey Season at IRISH REP

I was thrilled to join Irish Rep for TWO staged readings of O'Casey plays this spring.

First up was PURPLE DUST, the first of O'Casey's comic pastorals, written in 1940. I played Avril, a flirty little Irish songbird who ultimately chooses the future over the fast-dispersing purple dust of the past.

Next was a somewhat darker ditty: the controversial THE BISHOP'S BONFIRE, one of O'Casey's last plays, written in 1955. In this one, I played Foorawn, who is struggling to reconcile her broken romance with the town baddie with her new calling as a nun. It doesn't end well, to say the least.

​Extra special thanks to director Nicola Murphy for bringing me on board!