Three Men
Talking About Things They Kinda Know About
Centre
Culturel Irlandais, Paris
21
February 2014
Talking about one's
sensitive past is not easy doing, but somehow the three talented
actors of this play pulled it off poetically and with humor. Stephen
James Smith, Kalle Ryan and Colm Keegan offered an insightful and
penetrating moment with their play, that they've been performing for
three years now.
A simple setting of
photographs surrounding them, the three men shared their past lives
and family issues with a different kind of acting very specific to
each one. While Stephen slammed his parts, sharing his difficult
relationship with his father after he has seen him cheat on his
mother and then leaving her, Colm talked with his strong and
melodious Irish accent about the difficulty to have a child young,
and Kalle with his more soft-spoken Americanized language related his
overcoming of the pain of losing both parents. He may have been the
most communicative emotionally speaking.
The actors happily
answered to all of the questions asked by the public, and talked about how
they had made up this play in the kitchen of one of them. They have
come a long way since then, and on that matter their play might be
adapted on a US stage with different actors, something they would be
interested to see from an outside eye. They also shared their fear of
not being understood by a French public, but were relieved when the
first peals of laughter boomed out from the beginning.
During this 20-minute Q&A,
the actors also emphasized how this was not a therapy-play: although
these are all true personal stories, these issues have been resolved
by now. It is not a cry of pain waiting for an answer from the love
of the public, but a sharing of personal stories that can resonate in
people who might have gone through similar difficult episodes. As
Kalle puts it: the more specific the story is, the more universal it
becomes.
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