Una McKevitt

agency is under threat from the moment we're born by the people around us.

I mean, everything's a negotiation really to try and live our lives in a way that's meaningful to us.

And I think that probably I have, yeah, I'm sensitive to when the things that I would like, things that are important to me,

are considered less important to say the, the people in my life who might have influence.

Yeah.

So I do, I do like that.

I do also like the idea of what money does, how like money operates as power in personal relationships.

Um, and how we sometimes give people almost, uh, there can be certain subservience, sometimes around people who have money, um,

Exactly.

And even on a personal level, that's odd.

It is odd, isn't it?

It is really strange that it's like of such importance and has such value.

Not because we don't need it.

Yeah.

But we don't need the imbalance anymore.

to create a reverence, I don't think.

Yeah, it's very much challenged.

She does not, Sandra does not understand why her status is not having an effect on her family members.

Yeah.

And they spend the whole play resisting her power, which brings her to, you know, some pretty apocalyptic situations