Seeking a perfect union in An Ideal Husband
MARTY Rea has become one of Irish theatre’s most admired actors. Having graduated from RADA in 2002, the Belfast native traded the London boards for Dublin’s and the move has paid dividends. Rea is a regular at both of Ireland’s most illustrious houses, the Abbey and the Gate, while his recent work with Druid Theatre Company has confirmed his place at the forefront of a new crop of leading men.
This month, Rea is back in the Gate, playing Lord Goring, the brilliantly self-possessed, quip-spouting star of Oscar Wilde’s comedy, An Ideal Husband. It’s a part that the Belfast man has been sizing up since playing a smaller role in the same play, at the Abbey in 2008.
