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.