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ROBERTSON DAVIES' NEW NOVEL opens with a mystery: an elderly priest of the Anglican Church of Canada drops dead during a particularly dramatic moment in the Good Friday services. Very near its end, The Cunning Man (Viking; 469 pages; $23.95) provides an explanation for this long-ago demise, although it...
This cool, ironic tone may puzzle readers who have grown accustomed to the exhibitionist screeches and gibberings of contemporary fictional narrators. But Davies has never minded appearing old-fashioned in the absence of a preferable alternative. At one point Hullah describes a typical novel by John Galsworthy, "full of controlled...
At the beginning of this latest Robertson Davies novel, an elderly priest of the Anglican Church of Canada drops dead during Good Friday services. That scene is not explained until the end of "The Cunning Man" (Viking; 469 pages; $23.95). But TIME critic Paul Gray says the overriding appeal of...
directed by Howard Davies
Characters speak English, even when they're supposed to be speaking Irish. Friel's convention is difficult to accept, especially when his play deals with language at such a fundamental level and is so firmly grounded in realism. Director Howard Davies compounds the problem by failing to distinguish when characters...