moon 4 September 2009
Such a mixture of weather today – cold, very windy and often wet in Manchester (havoc with the hair for all and my lined old forehead totally on show – so much for wearing a fringe!) and then landing in Dublin to a dark but clear bright sky and a full moon. I was reminded of a play by the wonderful Geraldine Aron, SAME OLD MOON, which was my break into professional acting proper with the magnificent Druid Theatre Company. Druid was an amazement to me when I was at college in Dublin cos it was happening in my old home town (after I had left) and when I was ready to go pro (as they say) I nearly didn’t get the part in Ger’s play cos i had lost my Galway accent. Got there so PHEW! There is a line in it that says ‘it’s the same old moon shining down on you wherever you are’ – well ain’t that the truth…
Other thing to strike me as fab was reading that one of the great Irish statesmen, Garrett Fitzgerald (who was also Irish leader for a time) used to say to his civil servants ‘yes, it works in practise, but does it work in theory?’ – brilliant!
