TONIGHT on RTE 1: Saving Letterfrack: Ireland at the Venice Biennale

Who was that guy who started rambling on for 10 minutes about exiting his mother’s womb? What does this have to do with architecture? :confused:

That was Mannix Flynn, playwright and thorn in the side of the establishment. Spent time in Letterfrack in its original incarnation. I think his performance might have been an extract from ‘James X’. Not what you’d call a play, exactly, but it was performed in Project, Liberty Hall and other places a couple of years ago. He has made it his mission through his writing not to let us forget what went on in such places.

@ctesiphon wrote:

That was Mannix Flynn, playwright and thorn in the side of the establishment. Spent time in Letterfrack in its original incarnation. I think his performance might have been an extract from ‘James X’. Not what you’d call a play, exactly, but it was performed in Project, Liberty Hall and other places a couple of years ago. He has made it his mission through his writing not to let us forget what went on in such places.

Ah right. It just made me cringe to watch him. He seemed to just go on about the womb and nothing about what went on in Letterfrack. It wasn’t relevant IMO.

Aye- not a bad little programme, but I could have done with more detail on the building and less focus on the shenanigans and rigmarole. Seemed to be a documentary on the whole process of going to and being at the Biennale rather than a profile of O’D&T and/or the building. Though as Paul said above it was a “documentary film of Ireland’s award-winning exhibit” (my italics) rather than about the building. We should have read the small print. 🙂
And agreed, it was a curious excerpt from the reading, though maybe they thought too much detail on the Christian Bros baytin’ him around the yard would be off-putting for our delicate sensibilities?