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Theatre involves an ‘industrial process’ and is ‘ossified’. Yet acclaimed documentary maker and director Alan Gilsenan also loves its primitive, ritualistic, sacred nature, and is back directing drama, writes KATE HOLMQUIST

‘I THINK ANY decent production has a longer rehearsal period, and the notion of being able to produce a great piece of theatre in four weeks is in some ways crass.”