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...Bull-necked and broad-backed, he leaned his 195 Ibs. into high, hard fastballs and hit drives that were things of wonder. At first, when he was a rookie training in Phoenix, Ariz., no one believed it. The thin atmosphere, they said, made the ball carry farther. Yankee Manager Casey Stengel had one look and roared: "Stratmosphere my eye! This kid doesn't need help. He hits the ball over buildings...
COCK-A-DOODLE DANDY. Irish Playwright Sean O'Casey was offended by realistic theater, and in this blast at what he felt was wrong with Ireland, he turned his antic imagination loose. The players of the APA Repertory Company make it a rollicking, rumbustious piece of theater...
COCK-A-DOODLE DANDY is a Sean O'Casey play that has rarely been staged during the 20 years since it was written. Accustomed as they are to the theater of the absurd, today's theatergoers are less likely than the audiences of the '50s to balk at the play's zany unconcern with sequiturs, probabilities or dramatic p's and g's. The very talented players of the APA Repertory Company make this blast at what O'Casey felt was wrong with Ireland into a rollicking, rambunctious piece of theater...
COCK-A-DOODLE DANDY is a Sean O'Casey play that, with its zany unconcern with sequiturs, probabilities or dramatic ps and qs, has rarely been staged during the 20 years since it was written. The players of the APA Repertory Company make this blast at what O'Casey felt was wrong with Ireland into a rollicking, rumbustious piece of theater...
...Hate. However, the women of the play-a farmer's wife, his daughter and his maid-are delighted with this "saucy bird." O'Casey saw the repressed and persecuted Irish female as the repository of all that was open and joyous and life-loving in his native land. The conflict between them and the naysaying, money-hungry men is the essential drama of Cock-A-Doodle Dandy -with Protestant O'Casey's pet hate, the Roman Catholic Church, as archvillain. In the end, the women are roughed up and driven away to find "a place where...