From the Cripple to the Guerilla

After a stint in the West End as an understudy to Daniel Radcliffe in The Cripple of Inishmaan, Brian Fenton is back on home turf for a starring role in an adaptation of Tom Barry’s memoir, Guerilla Days in Ireland.

The 25-year-old Fermoy-born actor is a graduate of English and theatre studies at UCC, and after Guerilla Days in Ireland finishes its run at the Everyman and the Olympia, he will continue to base himself in London.

Fenton’s links with Britain go back to his training at Oxford School of Drama. “The school was in a little Cotswolds village and it’s a pretty unique place,” says Fenton. “There were only 14 people in my class. The training I did there was very much classical stage training doing Shakespeare, Chekov and Ibsen.”