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Dec 10, 2022 · When I ask Coonan, who is currently starring in the play at The Abbey, if he believes in ghosts, he tells a story about going to Macroom in Co Cork recently after the death of his sister-in-law...
- Róisín Ingle
Oct 10, 2024 · John Maguire on Film: Peter Coonan is a revelation in the post-boom Irish drama King Frankie. Best known for playing Fran in Love/Hate, the actor turns in a superb multi-faceted performance in director Dermot Malone’s debut feature
Oct 10, 2024 · Peter Coonan, an actor who has played his fair share of morally corrupt chancers, is working overtime in this competent and compelling drama from first-time feature filmmaker Dermot Malone.
Oct 13, 2022 · What would it take for a seemingly good man to be seduced by such a vile ideology as Nazism – to the point of becoming an SS officer and an active participant in its worst atrocities? That’s the premise of CP Taylor’s 1981 play Good, now revived in the West End with David Tennant playing the susceptible Halder.
- Marianka Swain
- The Origins of Good
- Why Good Has Such Power
- The 2022 Revival of Good
The play Good, by Cecil Philip Taylor (known as CP Taylor), was commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1981 and made its premiere that September at the Donmar Warehouse in London. Directed by Howard Davies, it starred two renowned actors: Alan Howard and Timothy Walker. Goodhas since been lauded worldwide, with fellow playwright Alan Pete...
The masterstroke of Taylor’s play is that instead of separating people into good and bad, heroes and villains, he shows the potential in a seemingly decent man for corruption. The Nazi Party spies the moral flaws, like vanity and detachment, in Halder, and they exploit those qualities, until Halder is at a point where he is committing atrocities bu...
Now, we have a major West End revival of Good– and it will likely feel very topical given the recent attacks on our democracy and liberty, such as the storming of the US Capitol or Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Sometimes it takes a lesson from history to really help us understand the present, and this revival could have a major impact. The new prod...
- Marianka Swain
The action unfolds like a dream play, in fragments floating through Halder’s mind. Director Dominic Cooke has taken the radical decision to reduce a large cast to three, with Tennant playing only Halder, but Levey and Sharon Small taking multiple parts.
Oct 1, 2024 · Peter Coonan believes Irish men do "not openly talk enough" about their mental health struggles and hopes new Irish drama, King Frankie, shows that there is "light at the end of the tunnel".
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