Bolger's 'Agnes' invokes spirit of legendary Bernelle

Agnes Bernelle is remembered in Ireland as an artistic director of the Project Arts Centre, in its early days, but she played many more parts in an extraordinary life.

Her father, Rudolph Bernauer, was a librettist and impresario in pre-war Berlin, before fleeing Nazi persecution in 1936, when Bernelle was 13.

During the war, Bernelle broadcast black propaganda, as a DJ named Vicky, specialising in morale-sapping disinformation, which famously caused a U-Boat captain to surrender.