Girl From the North Country in the rehearsal room, prior to opening at The Old Vic in 2017. Written & directed by Conor McPherson. Photo: Johann Persson
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15 minutes with... Conor McPherson by Fiona Mountford
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Fiona Mountford was Theatre Critic at the London Evening Standard from 2002-2019 (that’s seventeen years!).[/caption]On a shelf behind the desk in Conor McPherson’s agreeably cluttered Dublin office stands a row of CDs. The Beatles are in there, as are Black Sabbath and the Waterboys, but what catches the eye is a large gift box of Bob Dylan albums. It was this package, containing more than sixty discs, that Dylan’s management company sent McPherson for reference when the multi-award-winning Irish writer/director came on board for the project that would become
Girl from the North Country.
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