Shane Casey: 'I don’t want to be typecast - I want people to be second-guessing themselves'

Shane Casey returns to ‘The Young Offenders’ next year – in the meantime he’s back with his second self-penned play, writes Pat Fitzpatrick

Shane Casey: "I was the least likely person to be in a musical. I could hold a note, but I couldn’t dance, so I was stuck behind everyone else". Picture: Enrique Carnicero

Shane Casey pops up on Zoom in front of a poster for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 movie, Rear Window, with the text in Spanish.

I tell him he’s pretentious and that must be in preparation for an interview with The Guardian.