In Context: Howie the Rookie

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Howie the Rookie(PDF)

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Article
Irish Tumbleweed (BAM blog)
Theater scholar Jonathan Kalb makes connections between Mark O’Rowe’s play and the work of Samuel Beckett.

Interview
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor In Conversation With Mark O'Rowe (Irish Independent)
The actor and the writer/director discuss their careers and how they came to work together on Howie the Rookie.

Interview
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor: Nidgey, Howie, PJ and Me (The Irish Times)
“The actor who doesn’t grow is a hack,” says Tom Vaughan-Lawlor.

Interview
Mark O’Rowe On The Power to Shock—And Feel (The Irish Times)
“I mean, a single actor holding an audience’s attention for two hours is achievement in itself," says O'Rowe.

Article
On Molloy by Samuel Beckett (The Independent)
Novelist Tim Parks relates the influence Beckett's Molloy—which was an influence for Howie the Rookie—had on him.

Interview

Interview with Tom Vaughan-Lawlor and Mark O’Rowe (RTE Radio 1)
The actor and writer/director discuss Howie the Rookie.

Interview
Interview with Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (Galway International Arts Festival)
Says Vaughan-Lawlor on Howie the Rookie: "It's another one of those plays that you can't go half-hearted at. It's kind of all or nothing, really. If you duck out of it you're going to be found out."

Video
A Session With Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (YouTube)
Vaughn-Lawlor gives acting advice and talks about his part in the series Love/Hate. 

Video
An Excerpt from Beckett's Molloy (YouTube)
Jack MacGowran performs a famous section from the novel.


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