What is your idea of perfect happiness?
As much cake as we can eat.
Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Marie Antoinette.
Which living person do you most admire?
All the people who make us laugh.
Which is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Ability to distract ourselves from work at the merest provocation.
What is your greatest extravagance?
Being actors.
What is your favourite journey?
Going onstage.
On what occasion do you lie?
When asked, ‘Is the script finished?’
Which living person do you most despise?
We try not to despise people. It’s hard sometimes.
What or who is the greatest love of your life?
We do love a laugh.
When and where were you happiest?
Rehearsing The Lost Days of Ollie Deasy, summer 2000.
Which talent would you most like to have?
The ability to click our fingers and have a produced, rehearsed show ready for performance.
What is your current state of mind?
Focused.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
To have written, produced and performed four, soon to be five, theatre shows.
If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what do you think it would be?
Well-fed and much-loved cats.
What is your most treasured possession?
Fred McCloskey.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Onstage, forgetting our lines, in front of a stony-faced audience.
What is your favourite occupation?
Entertaining and being entertained.
What is the quality you most like in a man?
Silliness.
What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Sillierness.
Who are your favourite writers?
Shakespeare.
What is your motto?
Make us laugh or at least give us cake.
Electric Bridget will perform their new play, The Grippe Girls throughout the Galway Arts Festival at the NUIG’s Bank of Ireland Theatre, commencing each evening at 6pm. Tickets are available from the festival box office, Galway Tourist Office, Forster Street, and www.galwayartsfestival.com Kernan Andrews
