One: Healing with TheatreOver the period of a year Gavin Quinn visited the private homes of 100 actors and asked them to try and answer the question: Why do you think you became an actor? Each response was filmed and recorded. He then subsequently photographed each of them. The result is this book. This book tells the story of these one hundred actors: one hundred illuminating answers to a simple question. In ONE the actor talks to the reader from the stillness of their

her petite nose wrinkling with distaste as she looked about our family den

on the edge of Dublin city centre

Chairman of Fota Trust etc etc

commemorating as did he the essences of a natural world fixed in time

appearing again and again in his key films such as The Long Way Home (1940)

and by securing the future supply of clean and economical electricity and water throughout the Cork area and beyond

interest-free baking

the novel plunges into the hypocrisies

and always singular

sensitive and naive

Daisy’s vitality possessed and transformed that twilit world of Catholic Ascendancy Ireland

\n \nSpeeding over drifting sand