Three people in the arts world discuss the difficulties of making a living while pursuing their craft
In 2007, Paul Howard transferred the Ross O’Carroll-Kelly franchise to the stage after several best-selling novels. The Last Days of the Celtic Tiger was put on at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre. He laughingly admits it lacked the discipline of his later plays.
“I didn’t know how to write something that structurally worked on the stage. The director Jimmy Fey did an amazing job pulling together what I’d written. There was a moment when I was walking into the theatre the day they were doing the tech, and when they talk about ‘the tech’, everybody involved in theatre tends to get this distant look in their eyes, like Vietnam vets, as if they’ve been through something awful.
