Paul Howard Reveals Ross O’Carroll Kelly Legacy To Live On
“The year is 2022. Ireland is in the midst of an unexpected economic boom. The country’s debts have been repaid in full, the people are once again selling houses to each other for five times what they’re worth and Bertie Ahern is set to become Taoiseach again at the age of 71. Ross O’Carroll-Kelly is entering his middle years without a care in the world. He’s got a son who’s a professional footballer, a career-minded wife who’s about to land the job of her dreams – and, like good Cognac, his looks just keep improving with age. For Ireland’s most eligible married man, life is good. Until his teenage daughter arrives home from Wesley one night with the captain of the Blackrock College rugby team – and Ross is forced to face up to the lesson that you must reap what you have sown”.
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As Ross is again brought into the domain of ‘real life’, Paul acknowledges the importance of finding and keeping the cast that makes this work. He compliments each and every member of the cast. “I just got lucky and every time that they agree to do the next show, I get lucky all over again. To keep that cast together, because they are all incredibly talented actors. This is the third play and for every run we get them back, Rory Nolan as Ross, I couldn’t see anyone else playing Ross because Rory has made the character so much his own. It’s the same with Lisa Lambe, Lisa is an extraordinarily talented person not just as an actor but as a singer also, when you hear Lisa’s voice, she is just jaw droppingly good. Then you have Philip O’Sullivan as Charles, Laurence Kinlan as Ronan, we are just so fortunate to be able to keep this cast together. We don’t have Susan Fitzgerald this time which we are all very sad about, Susan passed away last year, she played Fionnuala and that’s why I didn’t write Fionnuala into it as I couldn’t see anyone else playing her. When I write about Fionnuala in the books, I think of Susan and that happens when an actor makes a roll their own. We have two new cast members this time round, Caoimhe O’Malley is playing Honor as a seventeen year old and you know what she’s like as an eight year old so you can only imagine her at seventeen and then Gavin Drea, who was also in Love/Hate and he’s playing Trailough, who is Honor’s love interest and they are kind of like a young Ross and Sorcha”.
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So what’s next for Ross? Breaking Dad, a Landmark production in association with MCD is running at the Gaiety Theatre from the 25th April to the 17th of May.
There are rumours of further dates and even further away venues so be sure not to miss a very talented cast of actors and a very talented and funny writer. The next book in the Ross series is due out next October as the adventures continue in, ‘Raiders of the last Dork’ and if that isn’t enough, Paul also mentioned another project, ‘Copper face Jacks the Opera’, so there’s a lot more to look forward to from Ross O’Carroll Kelly and Paul Howard and long may it last.
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