Danti-Dan, teenage years, and happy days by the River Lee
Gina Moxley, writer of Danti Dan and The Patient Gloria. Picture: Miki Barlok
Gina Moxley is not one for looking back. When the Cork woman wrote her debut play, Danti-Dan, which was originally staged in 1995, she was determined that it would be very much rooted in the present. The critically-acclaimed production explored the sexual awakening of a group of five youngsters.
“There’s no nostalgia. I’m so anti-nostalgia. That is one of the reasons there were all young people, so there were no adults lording it over them. They are not nostalgic, they are living and finding out stuff in real time. There is no looking back and remembering,” she says.
