KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: Yep. OK.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: So thank you your lovely thing.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: Well, we've got a huge audience in front of us.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: --to you for being exposed like that because of what we can learn from that.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: How did you resolve going from viewing yourself with that shame and embarrassment, fighting it all when you went on to become a lecturer,
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: It's your own process.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: That kind of brings me then to my next question.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: It's still there.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: If you want to.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: So with that in mind-- that you describe yourself as being released from this psychosis-- do you think that there is a responsibility
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: But she tries to convince her mentor-- I can't remember his name-- that it has improved and developed.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: OK. So far.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: When you ask yourself that question with this previous photo of yourself, did this girl know what misfortunes lay ahead of her?
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: That's a good question.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: You must not allow the person to become really isolated because that's when things start to-- KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: Deteriorate.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: How did you make the progress out of that cycle?
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: Yeah. That would be great.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: They can be a great person and a great therapist but not the right therapist for you.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: We're almost out of time.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: And thank you for this amazing festival.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: And in 2009, did either of you, even in your wildest dreams, imagine that it would develop into something so important
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: Yeah. Unfortunately.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: When did you know so that it wasn't going to be a once off?
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: Yeah. We just felt people wanted it, were ready for that conversation, and it was needed.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: That's amazing.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: Was this the middle of the day?
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: Who's going to come?
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: Spectrum of theater styles.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: Yeah. That's amazing.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: Which was beautiful.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: Who are your favorite children?
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: That's amazing.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: What an insightful little child.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: I'm hearing no favorites, David.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: Oh, that's OK.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: And can you tell us yet who you've chosen for next year from the-- Fringe Festival?
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: Yeah. But, yeah, it was a fantastic piece, and an easy one for us to judge on this year.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: Brilliant. Over the years, have you noticed in what way, or if at all, the conversations during the festival have changed?
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: And how is the Q&A, the after show conversations?
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: Sorry. So has the conversation-- I'll tell you, the conversations have changed.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: distance. And there's also-- there still seems to be a distance.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: If they don't?
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: That's very toxic.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: Do you think-- is it another way of promoting the stigma, or protecting yourself from being involved in the stigma,
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: You should explain Irish begrudgery.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: Time and nature.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: OK. Like, well, just to give another example, one of our French Festival award winners was an amazing company called Sunday's Child,
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: All on her own.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: Thank you.
KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: It's a great question.