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...Plough and the Stars, Sean O'Casey's drama about the Irish Easter Rebellion, has a macabre relevance to America's civil rights movement. The play asks, what is a cause worth you? Is it as palpable, as loving as a wife or son? Is a futile cause worth a hero's death, or is wasted bravery worse than cowardice...
Writing in 1926, ten years after the Easter Rebellion, O'Casey can answer these questions, because he can see Ireland's causes in a harsh historical glare. His characters uselessly throw away their lives in a meaningless fight, meaningless because of their empty motivation. Afraid to admit its own fear and surrender at the barricades, the Irish Citizen Army faces overwhelming British forces, and falls...
...CASEY (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Viveca Lindfors stars as a domineering mother convinced her dockworker son is faking illness...
...CASEY (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Susan Oliver stars as a Russian ballerina who gets the Casey tour of San Francisco's nightspots...
...CASEY (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Joan Hackett as a polio victim bent on suicide...