“D’ye hear me, you costumed slut?” Michael demands of his wife Lorna in Cock A Doodle Dandy. Aoife Duffin took part in a reading of the O’Casey play in the Abbey some years ago. She repeats the phrase with relish during our conversation, “You costumed slut!” Shelah Richards was meant to…
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55 – Painted Slugs: Pretty Creatures with a Tough Skin
‘It’s not an easy life,’ Aoife Duffin told me, sitting by the fire in the Library bar. ‘It’s … eh, tricky.’ Tricky. It’s a characteristic understatement from this actress, who had been adamant that she’d nothing interesting to share on Jessie Taite and the life of an Irish actress. I…