Word: connore
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...funeral is an odd blend of joy and sadness. Relatives separated by miles and years ecstatically renew their old affection, only to guiltily remember, at intervals, the solemn event that reunites them. This awkward dichotomy is captured, with humor, by Joseph O'Connor's play Red Roses and Petrol and the Sugan Theatre Company...
...Connor, elder brother of singer Sinead, is a writer of some renown in his native Ireland. His first novel was short-listed for the Whitbread Prize, and a collection of his journalism was an Irish bestseller for three months. His published work encompasses everything from biography to travel writing. Red Roses and Petrol, his first play, centers on the death of Enda (Brian Scally), patriarch of a small clan, which reunites his scattered family for two maudlin days. His widow Moya (Sarah deLima) and his daughter Medbh (Eileen Nugent), coping with his sudden absence from the house, are joined...
Nugent is even better as the daughter who stayed home; regrettably, her part is a small one. After a promising first scene, she is largely banished to nursing a beer on the side of the stage. O'Connor gives her only enough dialogue about her intriguing romantic troubles to tantalize, and Nugent's prodigious talent is expressed almost entirely by the occasional wisecrack and by baleful glances smoldering with reproach directed toward her brother and sister...
...Joseph O'Connor's first play explores the emotional landscape of an Irish family trying to come to terms with itself. Tickets $16, students $13. Call 497-5134 for info. Boston Ctr. for the Arts, 539 Tremont St., Boston...
...from the beginning, the U.S. Attorney's Office has entertained no thoughts of letting two career criminals waltz away with $5 million in spending money in return for the art. The office is willing to deal--but on its own terms. For his part, Myles Connor last week told TIME he would forfeit any reward or reduction of the 2 1/2 years left on his sentence, provided Billy be freed and three other unnamed inmates have their cases reconsidered. The three mugs got bum raps, says the rogue crusader...