Having worked with Patrick Sutton in TEAM, it was an easy progression to writing for the trainee actors at The Gaiety School of Acting. From October to December 1994, I watched the second-year students at the GSA delivering a series of scenes and studies. At the time I was moving to the cottage in Monasterevin.
When you look at the picture, there is small wonder that the play I wrote should be located in an isolated corner of rural Ireland.
The Beloved is a tale of families caught between poverty, greed and ignorance, and of a priest wrestling with his demons. Love and revenge were the winners in this one.
By the time I came to work with the GSA students, I had grown accustomed to sitting in the corner of a rehearsal room or studio, and watching people, and listening, and feeling the unspoken. That seems to be what I do best.
Apart from being a very satisfying artistic experience, this was the project which brought me to know Roisin Gribbin, but that is quite another story.
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