A Vision for Irish Theatre: Deirdre O'Connell (with Sabina Higgins)
About this episode
Donal Fallon interviews Sabina Higgins about the impact of Deirdre O'Connell and the Focus Theatre on Irish theatre.
At the recent Luke Kelly Festival, I was delighted to speak with Sabina Higgins (née Coyne) all about the Focus Theatre and Deirdre O'Connell. Bringing the Stanislavski acting system to Ireland in the 1960s, Deirdre transformed how young actors felt about the possibility of the theatre. The tiny Focus Theatre - with the support of Luke Kelly and others - had a massive impact on the theatre here, producing a generation of actors who would have real impact in the Irish arts. We talk about it, and Sabina's career more broadly, including the landmark television programme Insurrection (1966).
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