Sunday Interview: Garry Hynes

Briskly intelligent Hynes is aware of why media organisations are really keen to talk to her right now

Garry Hynes’s Druid theatre has been at the forefront of Irish theatrical production for 40 years. She is scathing about the role of the national theatre, the heavily subidised Abbey, which has virtually closed its experimental stage, the Peacock

Age:62

Family: Hynes is in a civil partnership with the film producer Martha O’Neill. They live together in Dublin 8

Currently reading: Two papers every day, usually the Irish Times and ...