Word: cyrill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Choosing to subtitle the play "a melodrama," Shaw appropriated and satirized all the traditional features of this genre. Like other melodramas, it pretty much plays itself, it lacks plausibility and subtlety, and it makes no demands whatever on its onlookers. But under Cyril Ritchard's direction, the present production has emerged bright and brassy...
...unholy craving for his sister (Susannah York). After causing no end of mischief-including crippling Susannah's marriage and shooting his left ear off with a shotgun-poor "Pink," as sis calls him, is packed off to a genteel asylum run by a kindly doctor named Maitland. Cyril Cusack, the fine Irish character actor, plays this role with a certain amount of bemused charm that makes the brother's plight slightly more believable and O'Toole's even more poignant...