Keith Doyle (rugby player)
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| Keith Doyle | |||
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| Personal information | |||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Weight | 105 kg (16 st 7 lb) | ||
| School | C.B.C. Monkstown | ||
| College | University College Dublin | ||
Keith was educated at C.B.C. Monkstown and was the SCT captain in 2002 and also helped the school reach the Leinster Schools Senior Cup semi final in 2000. He recently complted a degree in Sports Management in UCD. Keith represented Leinster and Ireland at schools and U21 level and was a member of the Ireland squad which reached the U21 World Cup final.
Keith is currently studying in DIT but he prefers to spend his days sitting at home making various combinations of toast and jams, with his preferred union being - orange marmalade (no bits), blueberry and a dabble of his favorite Ballymaloo Relish.
Keith has stated on numerous occasions that he wished to "fly like an eagle" and "spread his wings" into the unknown world of acting, siting a performance by the late Heath Ledger in 10 Things I Hate About You, as one of "the greatest inspirations of my life". Although his acting CV may not read like his rugby CV, Keith has treaded the boards before in a previous outing as Sailer No.3 in the Cole Porter play Anything Goes, a production of his alma mater, CBC Monkstown. However, a contentious issue arose in the post-production video, an issue still hotly debated today and yet frivolously denied by Keith.
In a show-stopping scene with the ever present Martha Lamont, Keith ingeniously ad libbed his depiction of the script as he saw fit with out the cast or crew ever realizing. With a simple reply of "Hey" to Martha's seductively posed question "Hey Cutieee?", Keith opened up new meaning to the phrase Three-in-a-bed. With his cleverly placed unscripted line, Keith created a dramatic new plot-twist which now involved Martha's character - Erma, Colm O'Toole's character - Moonface Martin and Keith's character - Sailor No.3, throwing wide open the debate of homosexually driven writing into Cole Porter's classic parchment. It was suggested that Keith had a two-fold reasoning for this now much maligned line:
1. With Keith playing such a powerful, iconically gay role of Sailor No.3, he felt it necessary to best utilize his position to further promote his hunger for gay-rights to be brought back into debate to the Dáil. By including his line, Keith forever changed the undertone of sexually informed writing in all of Cole's classic plays & songs - from Anything Goes to "In The Still Of The Night" and the now infamous "My Heart Belongs to Daddy", but this was an issue already under suspicion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cole_Porter#Sexual_orientation). Even at such a young age Keith had great desire to be recognized as a "wholely" committed gay-activist.
2. Due to the intense nature of the short, but ultimately bulging, scene between Erma & Sailor No.3, the relationship between Martha & Keith grew rapidly and led to an off-stage sexually-charged romance. This relationship grew over the prolonged course of the play and was said to have included a three-way romp between himself, Martha & Colm which was videotaped and choreographed by the production's Dance choreographer - Maggie May - late one evening after rehearsals. It was said that Keith's line was in reference to this whirlwind romance.
