Chris McCormack is a theatre critic based in Dublin. He blogs on MusingsInIntermissions.blogspot.ie and writes for A Younger Theatre, Irish Theatre Magazine and the Arts Council of Ireland. He is also a PhD fellow at the National University of Ireland Galway where he is researching influential designers who worked at the Abbey Theatre.
There are tales of partying with Steven Berkoff and attempting Indiana Jones-style escapes as the opening weekend of the rejuvenated Galway Theatre Festival comes to a close.