This year, Olwen and her husband, David Heap, announced he had been diagnosed with corticobasal syndrome. It is incurable
Olwen Fouéré photographed during a break in rehearsals for ‘The Boy’ at the Abbey theatre. Photo: Frank McGrath
The role of The Shee in Marina Carr’s new play The Boy came to actress Olwen Fouéré at a time when she was turning down most theatre work.
“I don’t know if you’ve read about my partner being very ill,” she says to me. We’re sitting in a small room within a rehearsal space at the Liberties’ Digital Hub. “I’d been offered three or four different plays in England and here, and I just turned them all down because I thought I can’t take that time out unless I absolutely, absolutely have to do that show.