Patrick Martins: ‘I want to be an inspiration for young people of colour, who want to pursue a career in the arts – whether that’s acting, directing, writing – that they will see me and think it is possible.’ Picture: Fergal Phillips
In a dressing room backstage in the Abbey Theatre, actor Patrick Martins is getting ready for the day’s rehearsal. Previews for An Octoroon, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s anarchic adaptation of Dion Boucicault’s 1859 slavery melodrama, will start this week, and the company has just brought the work onto the Abbey stage for several days of “tech”.Subscribe from just €1 for the first month!
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