267:: "At that time the shit was hitting the fan with how many high-ranking IRA people were actually informers. It was a really contentious issue at the time and it left everyone in Northern Ireland very uncertain. It was a paranoid time, that period raised a lot of unanswered questions and the play taps into that. It was also the discovery of a new writer and there was a lot of hype and excitement about it. It’s a terrible pity Stuart’s been taken up in TV recently, there is a mighty play in operation there, it’s quite brilliant...Barney is a scapegoat. He is set up before the play begins as the fall-guy for the higher echelons and the authority figures within the organisation. It is still a very sensitive subject. People like
296:. In 2013, he told the Irish journalist Hilary Fennell: "Being a professional actor means holding onto your own persona despite edging towards someone else’s. It can be a dangerous process at times: holding onto what you are while being someone else. I regard myself as a shy person. I was a very shy youngster, that’s why I was attracted to drama...I’ve told both my kids how much they have taught me. They’ve taught me to be more fully human and they’ve taught me how to love. The bottom line is love. If I could change one thing in our society it would be racism and bigotry. The fact that some people think they are better than others due to the colour of their skin" In 2018, he starred in
131:. Roddy had been working as a psychologist in England until he returned home to Ireland at the age of 33 to take up acting, saying: "I had been working as a psychologist in England, but decided the time had come to get out. I had had enough therapy to last me a lifetime. Maybe it was the lurking actor in me, but I found I was taking too many people’s problems onto myself – and paying the price. At least now, I can inflict them on others!"
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were very like Barney, scapegoats to cover up the higher-up figures in the IRA and that’s still extremely controversial to this day. What Barney represents, there is nothing innocent about him, he’s child-like but he’s guilty in the sense that he’s involved. I see Barney as the missing mother. He is
159:' of Northern Ireland, and create a theatre company that would "despite the system" put on new plays that might bring people together. Roddy was one of the co-artistic directors of the company. The Tinderbox company came to be, in the 1990s and 2000s, one of the leading theatre companies in Belfast.
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the only allowance that Stuart gives to femininity and that notion of caring and men being affectionate. I always thought there was that feminine aspect in the Barney and Thomas relationship within the family dynamic. He represents that missing mother I think."
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Shankill, and he would have brought me along on a lot of Saturdays to the matinees and that filled me with a similar love, so that love was always there despite me taking another route in life."
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