The Dead School adapted for Civic show

By Mary Dennehy

LIVING in Ballyroan until he was eight, director and producer Andrew Flynn has come along way since he remembers his dad heading out to work in The Blue Haven.

Andrew is well known to Irish audiences for bringing award-winning, high-quality and diverse plays to theatres right across the country with Decadent Theatre Company – which also brings theatre out of city centres and into communities, making theatre accessible to the masses.

After living in Ballyroan in Rathfarnham until the age of eight, Andrew moved with his family to Tipperary where his dad ran a pub – and a young Andrew got a life-lesson in character building from the many people who passed through the door.

Now living in Galway, Andrew has adapted and directed Irish writer Patrick McCabe’s The Dead School – which Decadent is bringing to the stage of the Civic Theatre this February 29 for a six-night run.

Despite a busy schedule, Andrew took a few minutes to chat with The Echo.