Pat Kinevane on bringing his one-man show from New York to Cork

The Cobh actor and writer tells Marjorie Brennan the intimacy is 'more textured and much richer with a Cork audience'

Pat Kinevane in King. Picture: Maurice Gunning.

Pat Kinevane's brilliant storytelling skills are to the fore as he regales me with tales of his recent US tour. The Cobh actor and writer did a three-week run of his one-man show, King, at a theatre on the East Side of New York, and while he was delighted with the rapturous reception from audiences, it was some other infamous residents of the city who left their mark.

“Coming home at night, what I noticed was the rats, they were everywhere. The stage manager, Michael, he’s this tough New Yorker, he was saying to me ‘you just gotta fucking toughen up, you clap your hands, and you stamp your feet and the rats will run away’.”