Big, bold imagination and no sense of rules
OVER the past decade, the renowned Irish theatre company Druid have engaged uniquely with the work of John B Keane. Since 2002, the Galway outfit have revived four of Keane’s plays, beginning with Sive, then Sharon’s Grave in 2003, The Year of the Hiker in 2006, and Big Maggie in 2011. Each production has toured to great acclaim.
The company’s recent revival of Big Maggie brought Druid’s director Garry Hynes full circle. In 2001, Hynes was at the helm of a scintillating version of the same play at the Abbey theatre.
