 Turn 2 on Green in the Theatre in Atta Kenney next Tuesday and Wednesday. It's a five star show very simple premise it's about a queue of people desperate for tickets to a sold-out play. It premiered in Galway last year and then it had runs at the Gate Theatre and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it won an award and in the cast there is Anna Healy and Anna has appeared on stages everywhere from the Abbey Theatre to the Lyric and the Gaiety and in the UK at the Corn Exchange National Theatre Chichester Festival and you might have seen her on TV or in films things like Emmerdale Inside I'm Dancing Lady Bird Lady Bird and that's that's just an idea of some of the productions that Anna has been in so I'm delighted that she joins us now. Anna good afternoon. How are you Tommy nice to speak to you? John, John here. It's John. Oh sorry John. Tommy's not on to him much later so I'm not sure if you're scheduled to go with him but you'll have to do with me in the meantime. Anyhow this is described as an audacious comedy and let me just read some of the the reviews that it's been getting and some of the things that a publication has been saying about at the time said it was a true work of genius the Guardian pitch black comic mayhem the Irish times a shocking and very funny play even the New York Times had great things to say about it describing it as wonderful and unexpectedly touching but as I said in the intro very simple premise exactly it's a very simple premise it's a premise we all know the anxiety that rises in you in a cube when it's not clear who's who's next who's first who's dodging or pulling a we move to get ahead and but the metaphor of it which is really like just how far from the surface is dog eat dog in the human condition makes for really absolute mayhem and chaotic comedy and a cousin of mine came to say it in Limerick the other night and she's not a theater goer at all and she said she she was going along thinking what is this this is very weird so she said she was digging her fingernails into her husband's leg laughing and then by the end of it she walked out of the theater wiping tears out of her eyes so I think Sonya Kelly's a cheap something very special there she's she's absolutely hit in at the heart of the human condition now the the cast not that big but it's the the the characters are very well fleshed out and tell us about yours because you're behind the desk and you're taking you're taking you're taking no prisoners okay so none of us have names like you know like christian names we call things like the umbrella lady the newspaper man woman in pink and my character is called ticket person she's not even given a gender she's ticket person so she sort of represents the system you know it's like computer says no so you're not getting past her the show sold out so at all times I'm assuring the people who come to the desk and nothing to do with the return skew so I can't help you I can tell you the return skews there but I can't help you and it builds and builds and builds and pure chaos is unleashed on the five people in the room and I love the character when I read the script I'd never seen a script like this before ever it's sort of when you read it first it's not it's not got a narrative but it does do you know I can't wait it's very surreal is the word I want to say for it and I can't tell you anymore without giving you spoilers but it's um it's fantastic really there's nothing like it but your your character knows more than she's letting on oh she does she has a secret all right have you have you seen it no I haven't seen it no I've been reading about it yes so my character really has a good sucker punch yeah yeah yeah yeah she's great but um yeah so I'm kind of contra puntle to the rest of what's going on this so I play a woman and my my uh challenge I suppose as an actress is not to get involved in the action so I'm just a woman work in her shift so for the hour and 20 of the play I'm doing what I'm doing consistently doing it you know not speaking all the time and they and they're you know I should quite often feel when you when you approach say customer services with a well-known Irish airline you got a blank expression sorry no no no can't do that but they're more involved in whatever um bit of uh company work they're doing or not interested in any kind of customer service but she has a she has a lot of aces up her sleeve actually that are unveil themselves so the uh the characters don't have names of such an umbrella woman and uh Bosco Hogan is a newspaper man and then there's a miller there's a woman in pink who comes into it and military man other character that comes into it so they're all sort of representative of a type the umbrella woman she's you know prim and proper and sort of you know they're all very entitled you know and then and then the racism that ensues so the woman pink who's a is an African woman a Somali woman without even what is this word that's been bandied about at the minute unconscious bias well this is very conscious bias that she gets anyway and she she's very quiet and demure and has her own tactic as well of how she gets her way but um and then the um the the the guy uh that Bosco plays is called newspaper man and he's like this you know we all know these two like soft-tuned corduroy academic you know I can smiley as anything but you know he's as vicious as the rest of them so but uh and I suppose like like a lot of plays you don't you don't really know until it opens and and until you get it out there in front of an audience how it's going to go down and uh you and uh the rest of the cast it must have been delighted with the response well you've said it there because we had no idea what we had this but right up until in fact after the first preview we were still scratching our heads and you know in Galway and the McLally Theatre which is the home of Druid is tiny so um it was very hard to gauge you know and they have got what what you call a um a very positive audience you know uh following so you're thinking what have we got but as we got as we got further in we realized that the missing ingredient is the audience because the audience play a big part in in um proceedings they kind of get involved because they identify so much with um the premise of the play and their laughter and their rowdiness kind of goads it on to get bigger and bigger and bigger and so the audience wear the missing part and once we once we really got a grip on that in fact I think it was really Edinburgh by the time we got to the Traverse to sort of post-colonial um or sort of imperial Edinburgh um that we realized what we had you know because it's dealing with all that kind of colonial issues as well so and and now it's on a on a full Irish tour you're in Ennis tonight and then coming up to Latter-Kennie for which is Latter-Kennie and I'm getting I'm getting picked up with Latter-Kennie on Sunday and whisked down to Marble Hill to the Shandong for a couple of days so look forward to that to get north they'll be spoiled rotten that's spoiled rotten right and why not and why not well listen it's uh two nights next Tuesday Wednesday and in Greenland Theatre and uh check the box office there for more information on the last return Anna the best look with the the tour thank you thank you very much see you next week maybe you'll get it yes I will absolutely okay bye bye thanks John