Word: connors
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...structure is European," O'Connor said, adding, "Even the inventory control system is Italian...
Other numbers--including that paragon of male bonding, "Johnny O'Connor," and a powerful "Walk Between the Raindrops"--followed like clockwork, and the set reached a climax with a riveting rendition of William Blake's "Jerusalem," featuring a rich solo from Ignatius...
James Joyce once called Ireland's National Theatre, the Abbey Theatre, "a factory for producing dwarf drama." If he were alive to see their production Joyicity, he would have had to eat his words. A oneman play written by Ulick O'Connor, Joyicity is a rare opportunity to see the words of James Joyce come alive...
...Connor's selection of text seems to be centered most strongly on religion, certainly an apt focal point for any modern Irish production. The audience witnesses the young Joyce wrestling with the yoke of religion, especially as emblematized by his mother--he is willfully, brashly iconoclastic. The more mature Joyce creates Leopold Bloom, who has settled on universal love as the only acceptable doctrine...
...Connor is fortunate to have material this rich and this timeless with which to work. This travelling production of Joyicity played to packed audiences at the Dublin Theatre Festival. Its one-night staging in Toronto elicited 17 curtain calls. And judging from the quality of this engagement, such praise was well-deserved...