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...Casey was offended by realistic the ater ("To hell with so-called realism, for it leads nowhere," he wrote) and in this blast at what he felt was wrong with Ireland, he let his antic imagination range and flow...
Playwright Sean O'Casey was an ag ing angry young man in the '20s when he wrote Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars. He was an angry old man of 69 when he wrote Coclc-A-Doodle Cock-A-Doodle the play he called his favorite. Audiences and producers have not generally agreed with his assessment; the play has rarely been staged during the 20 years since it was written, and its runs have been short...
...first character onstage is a bird -The Cock, magnificently plumed and wattled by Costume Designer Nancy Potts, and played by Barry Bostwick with impudent elegance. The Cock, said O'Casey, represents "the joyful, active spirit of life as it weaves a way through the Irish scene," and it spreads terror among the crabbed codgers and priest-ridden puritans of the countryside. They quail from its presence and blast at it with guns. Still, The Cock bewitches a high silk hat and a bottle of John Jameson, and rips to shreds the vestments of a priest who tries to exorcise...
...opinions," snapped Bing. "If critics were acrobats, they would all long ago be dead." ∙∙∙ Ill lay: German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt, 55, in Bonn with an attack of pleurisy that caused him to cancel last week's scheduled trip to Asia; baseball's Casey Stengel, 77, recovering in Glendale, Calif, from major surgery for a perforated peptic ulcer; Lawyer Percy Foreman, 66, in Houston with a case of pneumonia that could prevent him from preparing the defense of James Earl Ray in time for the March 3 trial opening; Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, 73, resting...
...Harvard club members ran for office. "No one wanted anything," Harry R. Katz '69-3, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats said. Lance R. Rogers '71 is expected to be appointed executive secretary of the state's Young Democrats by James J. Casey of Boston College, who was elected president...