Aaron Monaghan on his new production of Tarry Flynn: ‘I never want to lecture the audience’
The Cavan actor with a career ‘beyond dreams’ on leaving politics in the wings as he brings Kavanagh’s Tarry Flynn to the stage for a 21st-century audience
Aaron Monaghan. Photo by Brian Farrell
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‘We’re at what I call the treacle stage.”
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