Rex Ryan

He has...

he basically has a moment where he goes into his mind and time stops.

And for 55 minutes, an angel of death takes him through the high and low points of his life.

So what the play actually ends up turning into is a reckoning with himself.

Is he guilty or innocent for his entire life?

And then by the end of the play, he can walk out in front of the judges, reconciled that no matter what happens, he can stand there and feel

some sort of groundedness for everything that's happened over the last 60 years.

And that's what the play examines.

Like I said, it was exceptionally helpful for me.

Yes, you've just given away the entire premise.

TV series thanks well look there you go you're spot on yeah I think there's a there's a there's a an absolute marriage if you if you can if you if you

take a little bit of dramatic license in some places.

There's a marriage with Gerard's trajectory and the trajectory of a Dublin working class story.

Yeah.

In the 60s, that time, massive unemployment rate in the inner city.

They were still, the people of the inner city from, you know, 61, 2, 3 onwards are still reeling from unemployment.

Things like the automization of the docks, massive loss of jobs, huge neglect, a lot of terrible decisions by the government and how that whole area of the docklands was dealt with after that period of industrialization.

And you've got families, as Gerard talked about on the podcast, seven, eight to one room.

You've got parents that are working their arses off.

They don't even have the time nor energy to try and ensure that their kids are getting a proper education.