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- Rachel O'Riordan (born 1974) is an Irish theatre director. She is the artistic director at the Lyric Hammersmith, London.
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Rachel O'Riordan (born 1974) is an Irish theatre director. She is the artistic director at the Lyric Hammersmith, London. [2] Early life and education. Born in Cork, Ireland to poet and novelist Robert Anthony Welch and Angela O'Riordan Welch, O'Riordan first trained as a ballet dancer.
Oct 13, 2021 · The director of the 25th anniversary production of Martin McDonagh's play at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, shares her insights on the play's themes of rage, sadness and Ireland. She explores the political and personal resonances of the play in a post-colonial context and its humour and humanity.
Rachel O'Riordan talks about her vision for the Lyric, a subsidised theatre in London with a big space and a local community. She announces her first season of seven plays, all driven by women, with a post-colonial A Doll's House and a new Solaris.
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As well as a broad view of the nation’s theatre, her journey has instilled an intense dislike of dismissive or patronising talk of ‘the regions’. “I hate that term,” she says. “I don’t use it. I ran a theatre in the capital of a country, Wales, in Cardiff. I ran a theatre company in the capital of Northern Ireland, in Belfast. There’s nothing ‘regi...
O’Riordan is fresh from a meeting with fellow director Conor Mitchell, who she showed around her new workplace. “I brought him into the auditorium afterwards and we sat there for half an hour just talking about ideas and what we might make together. And he said: ‘God, these theatres… They take you somewhere, don’t they?’ And they do. There’s someth...
What was your first professional theatre job? It was as a movement director, for the Belfast company Kabosh, on a show called Strange!, which was directed by Karl Wallace. What was your first non-theatre job? Bar work and waitressing; lots of it. In London and in Belfast. What is your next job? I’ve been here six months… So who knows? What do you w...
O’Riordan knew she had found her thing. “But it took a long time to get there, and I think younger people should take heart, because it isn’t always step by step by step, particularly if you’re not networked in, as I wasn’t, or if you don’t have loads of money. It can feel really impenetrable. I don’t want to sound chippy, but there’s a lot of priv...
It was also a swift education in the more hard-headed side of the artistic director role, knowledge that would become vital when, three years later, she moved to Wales to take over at the Sherman Theatre – only to see the theatre’s entire Cardiff Council grant cut before her tenure had even begun. As if that weren’t enough, the Sherman was “not in ...
Born: 1974, Cork, Ireland Training: None Landmark productions: • Hurricane, Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh (2003),Soho Theatre (2004),East 59th Street Theatre, New York (2004) • The Absence of Women, Lyric Belfast/TricycleTheatre (2011) • The Seafarer, Perth Theatre/ Lyric Belfast (2013) • Iphigenia In Splott,Sherman (2015), National Theatre (2016) • Ki...
Rachel O’Riordan is a unique leader in UK theatre, having run theatres in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. She talks to Sam Marlowe about her unorthodox career, her vision for the Lyric and her debut season of diverse and challenging plays.
Aug 27, 2021 · Lyric Hammersmith. 1.67K subscribers. 4. 605 views 2 years ago. In the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, Maureen Folan – a plain, lonely woman, tied to her manipulative and ageing mother, Mag...
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Oct 19, 2017 · P laywright Gary Owen and director Rachel O’Riordan delivered one of the best new plays of the year so far in Killology and previously worked together on the award-winning Iphigenia in...
Mar 23, 2017 · Rachel O'Riordan is the artistic director of the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff, where she has directed plays by Gary Owen, Alan Harris and Chekhov. She talks about her approach to directing, her vision for the theatre and the challenges of being a female director in Wales.
