John and Bob Crowley, brothers in arts

“For the first 10 or 11 years of my life, Bob was of no consequence to me. He was, at best, a distraction,” confesses the Irish film and theatre director John Crowley of his older brother Bob, 17 years his senior. Bob left home in Cork when John was still a child, and his brother little realised that he would one day follow the same path into the theatre – directing an award-winning production of The Pillowman, by Martin McDonagh and Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods – and later…