Word: casey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Theater to Hollywood; following a brain operation; in Dublin. From 1917 to 1929 Fitzgerald (real name: William Joseph Shields) led a double life as a bookkeeper for the Dublin Board of Trade by day, by evening an Abbey player in ever-fatter roles. Then famed Playwright Sean O'Casey wrote The Silver Tassie, and Fitzgerald opened it in London as a fulltime actor, quickly became the vogue in brogue. His Hollywood zenith came in 1945, when he won an Oscar for his supporting role as a cantankerous but lovable old priest in Going...
...promises some action before the University opens in the Fall. Reliable sources indicate that the President is considering appointing a group of Assistant Deans and letting them choose their own boss.... On June 10, in time for Commencement, the MTA starts running again.... The University grants honorary degrees to Casey Stengel, Brendan Behan, Francoise Sagan, Everett McKinley Dirksen and Al Capp ... Muscat declares war on Oman. The State Department says it would "view very seriously" any Soviet intervention. Soviet ambassador Menshikov replies, "Who's intervening? Who even cares?" "Provocation," says Castro...
...Plough and the Stars is a properly orchestrated tragedy, but less a tragedy of war or even of civil war than of national character, of all that is left undone in working to achieve a great objective and then is too badly managed to achieve it. For O'Casey, even in 1926, there was still real use in crying over spilt blood. But, never gnawing a thesis, he made his tragedy vibrate with harsh humor and pulse with humanity...
...Sean O'Casey's Drums Under the Window is a lilting work that makes golden use of the English language. With this exception, however, the downtown offerings generally range from pretentious to overtly sheckel-minded. An example of a play with static ideas and superficial newness is Genet's The Balcony, one of off-Broadway's biggest hits. Despite its pretensions of originality, it bogs down in a miasma of unreality and philosophical despair. The play first states that men patronize brothels not for sexual satisfaction, but in order to fulfill self-illusions; to try to translate their dreamworlds into...
Ironically, the one outstanding play of the season has been O'Casey's. In its dignity, freshness, and language, it is the antithesis of stilted and mechanically "avant-garde" off-Broadway. Hopefully its success will indicate that tourist theater cannot totally swallow up decent theater downtown...