Stanley Townsend on Solar Bones and working on Star Wars: Andor

As the adaptation of Mike McCormack's novel plays in Cork and Dublin, the veteran actor has several other interesting projects in the pipeline 

Stanley Townsend in Solar Bones, at the Everyman in Cork, and the Abbey in Dublin. 

 Stanley Townsend has experienced a lot in his long and varied career as an actor. But even he couldn’t have anticipated what it would be like to put on a production at the height of a pandemic. When he appeared in Solar Bones, the award-winning stage adaptation of Mike McCormack’s novel, at Kilkenny Arts Festival in August 2020, the surreality of it all hit home.

“There was a tiny window when we managed to put the show up. But the protocols were pretty extreme," says Townsend.