{"id":730469,"date":"2026-01-30T08:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T08:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/730469\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T08:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T08:56:14","slug":"fair-deal-how-ni-actress-aislin-mcguckin-found-joy-in-playing-an-egomaniacal-megalomaniac-in-una-mckevitt-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/730469\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair Deal: How NI\u00a0actress Aisl\u00edn McGuckin found joy in playing an \u2018egomaniacal megalomaniac\u2019 in Una McKevitt play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The actress opens up about inhabiting her \u2018grotesque\u2019 character in Una McKevitt&#8217;s comedy and why darker roles offer unique creative freedom\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The cast of Fair Deal \u2014 Caroline Menton, Garrett Lombard, Aisl\u00edn McGuckin and Jack Weise \u2014 on the first day of rehearsals. Image: Roisin Murphy O\u2019Sullivan.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a78bf55a-c011-44ac-b631-6f1481263803.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The cast of Fair Deal \u2014 Caroline Menton, Garrett Lombard, Aisl\u00edn McGuckin and Jack Weise \u2014 on the first day of rehearsals. Image: Roisin Murphy O\u2019Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Aisl\u00edn McGuckin will star in Una McKevitt\u2019s Fair Deal alongside Garrett Lombard, Caroline Menton and Jack Weise \u2014 a sharply written play about property and family \u2014 next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cIt\u2019s interesting, you read it and you think, \u2018alright, I have a fair idea\u2019, and then you go into the room and you can read it and have an idea that it\u2019s sort of discussion and arguments, but I think it\u2019s bigger than that for the themes of it to really get across,\u201d says Aisl\u00edn, from Enniskillen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The actress opens up about inhabiting her \u2018grotesque\u2019 character in Una McKevitt&#8217;s comedy and why darker roles offer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[16264,21111,1248,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-730469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-aine-toner","9":"tag-dublin","10":"tag-fermanagh-news","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115983219753141878","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}