Arts Week with Judy Murphy

Actor Colm Meaney walks through the main door of the Bailey Allen Hall at the University of Galway on a clammy Monday evening looking like a man who’s just done a hard day’s work.

And appearances don’t deceive. He and his actress daughter, Brenda, are in the thick of rehearsals for Bedbound, their two-hander for this year’s Galway International Arts Festival, directed by Marc Atkinson Borrull.

It’s an Enda Walsh play, so there are torrents of words and complex human interactions to grapple with. Not to mention the heat of the rehearsal room, where they’ve been doing a run-through before it begins previews this Friday, July 14, at the Bailey Allen.

He’s having a quick break ahead of an interview with the Tribune, which takes place outside in the evening air where Brenda explains how the production originated.

“I had worked with Mark with the Irish Rep company in New York and had known him socially when I was in Trinity,” she says of the director who divides his time between Brooklyn and Dublin. It was Mark’s idea to create this unique pairing for Bedbound, a play about a father-daughter relationship and it was he who set the wheels in motion.

“Mark said it to Anne about doing Bedbound,” explains Brenda. She’s referring to Anne Clarke who founded and is the producer at Dublin-based Landmark Productions. A company at the top of its game, it regularly coproduces Enda Walsh’s work with the Galway festival.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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