 And that was the sound of green shine there and a Bob Dylan song, you're going to make me lonesome when you go. And as promised joining me in the studio tonight I've got Andy McGrenahan and Bill Vaughan from the Letter Kenny music and drama group. Folks you are very welcome. Thank you, James. Cheers. Thank you. So Andy you are director of Two One I Plays written by local man Brian Walsh and I didn't realise he was such a prolific playwright. Yeah well in recent times he's become very prolific anyway Jean. I have if I can pronounce prolific right I'm not sure but I know he's wrote numerous plays over the last few years. He would have started out as far as I remember now he started out doing a few sketches for the memories night down in the station house hotel every last Monday of the month and he would have wrote me in to do a few kind of very sort you know the way I would play some very subtle characters there. So I usually give me the Egypt part and he played the sensible part and he started so he was keeping me up to date and some of the things that he was writing and all and then I guess we started he must have been kind of taken a bit more serious and entered a few competitions and that's culminated in him winning you know the most recent one with the matchless surrender coming first and I had seen the other one a role of a lifetime. I think he must have wrote that a couple of years ago maybe and then entered it at a later date because I know it seemed to be on the go a wee bit longer I know I had it in me draw at the house so to speak I'd read it several times with God if ever get a chance I would like to do know maybe to direct it or to be in it even you know because I suppose Ego would have me out front of stage rather than back stage. I know a few people like that as well they planned it too directly and then the part is so good that they want to act with themselves but you're actually directing and you're acting in one of the plays yourself Andy? Yes well I'm director in name and I have to just give a wee shout out Plunkett's in the background Plunkett has officially retired but I've asked him just to come in and have a nod we look at us and make sure we're not going too far off track and he's always been giving us some wee bit of guidance as well there so I'll put a wee thanks out to Plunkett there because he's keeping us on the right track yeah the play that I'm in along with Elaine Gillespie and it's called the role of a lifetime I can't say too much about it because I'll be scared to say too much because there's a slight twist at the end and I don't want to give the way or give the game away so to speak on it but it's a fella comes into a kind of like a garden feet type setting and he has an encounter with a fortune teller and the fortune teller is Elaine Gillespie a well-known actress living in Eric Enney from Strenall or multi-award winning as I clench my teeth to that because I've been a few shows or now won no awards with Elaine won so it's great to get Elaine to do it because you know with time and one thing or another is a big commitment you know one and there's a small part the towards the end a part I felt a person called Charlie and Michael Leddy always Michael Leddy is doing a cameo there for us he's coming out of semi-retirement from film criticism and television watching to to do that page for us so I really appreciate Michael doing that as well I well of course letter Kenny we have the one act festival every year so the concept of a one act play is is here with us for a number of years correct and it's great I think I think because you don't lose your concentration during the one act like it's about 50 minutes would that be right and yes yeah that well the second play and I'll let Bill go into more detail about the second play but it's called a matchless a render that's running time 50 minutes and the role of a lifetime which will go second is running about 35 minutes at the moment you know so yeah so it's as you say you know if you are starting to get a bit restless in the seat of that you know there's another with the one with the three one acts being on in the one night you always know there's another one coming along shortly and there's going to be a wee break and you get up and stretch and there's you know it I don't know if people like yeah you know with the musicals and with the three act plays there you know they're really popular and they sell out very quickly the one acts are a wee bit of a harder sell but we thought you know Brian winning these awards and being a local man from a well-known family and a really really really modest fella like he wouldn't push the like they'd be sitting in his drawer at the house if he you know he's very hard to get him to push push something you know so it's a great opportunity for the group for us as individuals and you know to get a chance to put them on so no it is a wee bit different than the than the normal three act plays and the musicals and that but every bit is entertaining as as we would agree being involved in them this few years like yeah and Bill you're in the matchless orinda and I looked up the name orinda never heard of before but there's two definitions one tells me that it's a of Hebrew origin meaning pine trees and the other is a Latin origin meaning property Spanish oral meaning golden linda but I don't know how true that is you know more than me and I didn't even know that but it's based on a real character the master surrender she was a 17th century poet and I didn't realize that when I read the script first so that makes it very kind of clever I think because it's the the scenario is that my character I'm a homeless person in Tower Hamlets in London so I'm kind of you know I could be sleeping anywhere parks or you know hostels or whatever but and it's based in modern time you know but there's there's been a spate of unusual occurrences where there's been about 20 people over the last month at different times have appeared and it's it's been discovered they've all been from the year 1664 you know and it's just been around the Tower Hamlets area the old part of London so the the local council are a bit miffed and wondering what's going on here and I'm just kind of looking for a place to bed down in a park spend the day and next thing I see this lady very unusually dressed lying on the grass in the park and that's how it starts then I kind of think on this one of them you know and then she wakes up and the whole play then is the dialogue between myself and herself she has no clue where she is she thinks I've kept an actor and it's kind of goes on from there and it's it's very kind of funny in that it covers a lot of kind of issues that are going on at the minute around homelessness the immigration you know with kind of all the things that are going on at the minute with different countries of that social media you know so I just think it's very clever the two plays are very cleverly written and and they're nice and funny they're nice and lighthearted so it's just great you know I'm looking forward to it and your partner in crime is Orla Carlin Orla yes Orla is the massless orinda and I know Orla has loads of experience I didn't realize that Orla was telling me that she she was involved with a professional production going back I think a couple of summers ago so that's how I'll have to help me game I'm really hoping she didn't I wasn't she didn't tell me that but yeah I'm looking forward to this it's great you know and it's nice first time I've ever been involved with the one act plays you know so it's it's nice yeah the one the one act plays are lovely and usually there is not that many characters in it as well like you know a two-hander or a three-hander and you know they're they keep you engaged so they do for the for the duration of it so there's two nights Andy in Glen Swilley the first night Glen Swilley the first night we've arrangement thank through Bill here had connections with the committee out there and we've met Sharon and Dykemar out there and we've we're all systems going out for Saturday night eight o'clock out in Glen Swilley there's not tickets that's pay at the door 12 euros 10 euro concession pay at the door and in and out about Glen Swilley Glen Swilley have a great facility out there deep matter Goubert the even the stage and the technology lighting and sound is brilliant we we did plays out there you know locally um it's quite a few years ago now uh and uh the you know I be so often yeah someone might say is there any any plays happening or anything you know happening out in the hall uh so I just thought it'd be nice opportunity so I was chatting to Sharon McGinty and I said I was asking Sharon you know what are the chances of putting this on out in Glen Swilley so uh Sharon was very accommodating and uh the committee in Glen Swilley so it was great great opportunity excellent and then of course the green on then on the 15th is the Wednesday the 15th then and it's the normal times gene eight o'clock and it's 12 and 10 again with the concessions so we're thankful for the theater as well and we've been kind of touching base with Nile around lighting and sound and that and so we've maybe going to put a few final touches to that this week with Nile uh getting a few week technical things ironed out and also we're very hopeful you know that we'll get a bit you know uh an audience you know as I say it's a slightly different but uh very quirky plays very different uh you know I would compliment Brian on that and I would be saying to me he's just got a wee bit of a different way of thinking and things like you know and uh you know that they are there's there's fun in them there's a bit of thought provoking in them as well and they're the poignant as well you know and Spell says about you know it's kind of touching particularly the matchless surrender it's kind of touching on some of the modern day subjects right up to now like you know he really hits a number of things and uh I wouldn't say he's judgmental in any of them but they're there in the conversation and you know you can think whatever you like about them but you know you can kind of see the parallels with today like you know and the 1664 was looking at that like and I think that was I mentioned about it being a good year for beer and I think that was I don't know if we're allowed to say Crone as a non-drinker I think 1664 was Cronenburg I think like you know why but uh so as not being a drinker or an ex-drinker I don't really know anything about that Well the very best of luck with it now and and Bill and pass on my best wishes to the rest of the cast as well and I hope it goes well and thanks a million for taking time out tonight today tonight even to talk to me and hopefully I'll get to one of those performances thank you very much cheers hey uh 11 years sir