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| Eithne McGuinness obituary My friend Eithne McGuinness, who has died of cancer aged 48, was a playwright and actor who was startling as Sister Clementine in the 2002 film The Magdalene Sisters. She infused her characterisation with a magnetic mix of cruelty and innocence.A descendant of Muriel Gifford, who campaigned for Irish independence, Eithne had a strong sense of social justice. After attending secondary schools in Dublin, she worked in the Fitzpatrick Castle hotel in nearby Killiney, moving swiftly up the ranks with her capacity for hard work and scintillating sense of humour. She spent a decade in the US, returning to Ireland in the early 1990s and devoting herself full time to theatre.Eithne soon carved out a niche in Dublin's theatre community, writing and performing one-woman pieces, including The Queen of Sheba and Typhoid Mary, a lyrical, elegiac play about Mary Mallon, an Irish cook who unwittingly infected her New York clients with typhoid in the early 1900s. Eithne first performed Typhoid Mary at the 1997 Dublin Fringe festival. A year later, a radio version was produced by RTÉ (the Irish national broadcaster). Eithne revived the theatre production in 2004 and again in 2009 for an international tour that was cut short by her illness. Her final appearance as Mary was, fittingly, in New York.Eithne worked with many Irish theatres and was rarely "resting". She also engaged with community groups, bringing tremendous creativity and vitality to storytelling and theatre projects in Dublin, particularly the inner-city areas around Sean McDermott Street and Ballybough. In 2000 she appeared in the Irish TV soap Glenroe. During the last two years of her life, she entertained audiences all over Ireland with her beautiful singing voice, adroit dancing and perfect comic timing in the shows Menopause: the Musical and Dirty Dusting.Eithne's dramatic writing was the quiet twin of her life as an actor, a vocation that she pursued with passion and a ruthless attention to detail. Her plays explore difficult, morally complex themes with humour and insight. A Glorious Day, set during the 1916 Easter Rising, was given a public reading at the Abbey Theatre. Limbo, dealing with immigration, was produced in 2000 and 2001.In 2004 Eithne embarked on an MPhil in creative writing at Trinity College, Dublin, during which she wrote Miss Delicious, a powerful play about sexual abuse, which was later workshopped at the Abbey Theatre. Plans to produce it were under consideration when Eithne became ill.She will be missed for her wit, warmth, perceptiveness, honesty and her wonderful dinner parties. She is survived by her parents, Kevin and Iseult, her sisters, Maura and Niamh, and her brothers, Barry and Dermot.Theatreguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
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