Some of you might be wondering whatever became of Aoife Spillane-Hinks. I’ve known Aoife since she was a tot, dashing around auditoriums following the grueling grown-up productions which her mother, theater critic for the New Haven Independent (the long-defunct 1980s print one, not the current online one) would bravely bring her to. Aoife attended the Educational Center for the Arts here in New Haven, then studied theater at Harvard. Whereupon she moved to Ireland. We’ve occasionally been in touch (I availed of Aoife to check out a Dublin-based production of The Bacchae for us because it used a translation wrought by my father), and she’s been very busy over the years with a host of theater projects.
The latest is a fringe show, a new adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper starring the award-winning actress Maeve Fitzgerald.
But surely the Edinburgh Fringe is over. Yes, this is Dublin’s own Absolut Fringe, Sept. 10-25.
Thank you for the reminder, Aoife, that we have been negligent in our international fringe homework. And break a leg, whilst suffering a draconian late-19th century medical treatment.