Archives for posts with tag: Bertolt Brecht

Ui: An Epic Extravaganza

November 17, 08 //
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Brecht is the love of my life- sorry, that just came out. My love in fact runs so deep that any production of his Excellency’s work is destined to fail when set against the backdrop of my enormous, insurmountable expectations. At the close of The Abbey’s current version of ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’ therefore, I was left a shell of my former self having been bludgeoned and bombarded by the brilliance of this Brechtian extravaganza, which not only exceeded my wildest hopes, but blew them completely out of the water.

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‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’: An Interview with Tom Vaughan Lawlor

November 2, 08 //
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Times are bad, prices are rising and recession is looming: sound familiar? Before you jump to any justified assumptions, this is 1930’s Chicago not just another day in Dublin. Indeed the circumstances from which ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’ arises strike an almost uncanny parallel to that of the world’s current political and economic climate- this is not lost on the Tom Vaughan Lawlor. A graduate of the Trinity Drama course, an ex RADA student and most importantly the lead in The Abbey’s current production of ‘Ui’, Lawlor has a lot to talk about- we start with his time at Trinity.

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