Aisling plays a king to unite Munster

Kerry actress Aisling O’Sullivan is relishing the thought of bringing Druid’s Shakespeare extravaganza to Limerick and Skibbereen, writes Padraic Killeen

SINCE its premiere in Galway last month, Druid’s latest theatre extravaganza, DruidShakespeare, has been showered with plaudits. Even Camilla Parker-Bowles has given the production a royal seal of approval.

Weighing in at a whopping six hours long, the show welds together the four plays of Shakespeare’s ‘Henriad’ — Richard II, King Henry IV Parts I and II, and Henry V — and does it with such charm and gusto that, in fact, the hours pass all too quickly.