Author Description

To honor the life and times of The Focus Theatre, this new title provides an insight into Ireland's only arthouse theatre from the people who were there. Through interviews, articles, short memoirs, and photographs, Stanislavski in Ireland: Focus at Fifty tracks the theatre from its inception. Many of Ireland's leading theatre and film artists trained and worked at Focus, including Gabriel Byrne, Joan Bergin, Olwen Fouere, Brendan Coyle, Rebecca Schull, Johnny Murphy, Sean Campion, Tom Hickey, and Mary Elizabeth and Declan Burke-Kennedy. The book comes complete with a chronological list of productions.