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SPRING 2020
Travelling
Tales
Upperchurch writer
and actor Aine Ryan’s
new play ‘Paddy Goes
To Petra’ comes to
The Source this spring.
She tells us a little
about it and her life
on stage
Áine, where did your love of performing
come from growing up and where did
you study acting after school?
I always loved it. I started off performing in
plays in Upperchurch N.S at the Christmas
concerts etc. and doing Novelty Acts for Scór.
At home I was always making up scenarios
with my sisters to act out. Also, growing up in
a pub where lots of people were coming to
sing and perform I was always around it. I did
a theatre and performance degree at
University and then I did a course in TV
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production in Waterford which has helped
me a lot with developing story.
How did your first play ‘Kitty In The
Lane’ come about?
I wrote a dissertation for university which
was about young female characters in Irish
drama and after all the research I felt able to
write my own character with a unique voice. I
had written numerous other drafts of plays
before that but this was the first one I
finished. It went really well for me first at The