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...cast members, from Dublin's Abbey Theater, are amazingly fresh and spontaneous in roles that half of them have been playing since April 1990, when the play premiered in Ireland. Yet the performances also have the delicacy and nuance that comes from long consideration. They suggest all the tacit tolerance, the willful blindness, that makes family life possible, and also the tragic inevitability that even inside a household there will be competition, and some survivors will prove fitter than others...
James Joyce once called Ireland's National Theatre, the Abbey Theatre, "a factory for producing dwarf drama." If he were alive to see their production Joyicity, he would have had to eat his words. A oneman play written by Ulick O'Connor, Joyicity is a rare opportunity to see the words of James Joyce come alive...
...announced that visitors will have to pay a $3.25 entrance fee, after the church had to spend $150,000 to repair its rare black- and-gold marble floor. The surface had been damaged by salt and grit tracked in by tourists wearing sneakers. And forget about stopping at Westminster Abbey, even on a Sunday morning, for a few quiet moments of prayer. "Now it's like Harrods three days before Christmas," says cultural historian John Julius Norwich. "Salisbury Cathedral is just as bad. The whole atmosphere is gone. You can't see anything, and people are talking in 20 different...
Mitchell is "definitely one of the greatest professors I've had, if not the greatest," says Abbey Kohn '91, who calls the professor "supportive of students" and "interested in helping people...
...view, is the village life portrayed in J.M. Synge's masterpiece about ignorant peasants and their perverse notions of heroism, all of it a sly satire on the yearning of oppressed colonies to break free. The finest Irish drama of the 20th century, it is discerningly performed by the Abbey Theater of Dublin, at Washington's Kennedy Center through Oct. 21, then in St. Louis, Tucson and Ann Arbor, Mich...