Word: druid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge License Commission last night issued a stern warning to the Druid Restaurant, located at 1357 Cambridge St., where a bartender was observed serving alcohol to a minor earlier this year...
Andrea Boyer, Chief Licensing Investigator for the City of Cambridge, testified that she targeted five area restaurants in a sting operation on February 20. Boyer reported that she witnessed an illegal transaction--the sale of alcohol to a person under the age of 21--only at the Druid establishment...
...already caused a sensation in London, where four of his plays have been staged to wide acclaim in the past two years. One of them, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, opened off-Broadway in February (in the original production staged by London's Royal Court and Ireland's Druid Theatre) and drew such ecstatic reviews that its six-week run was sold out within 24 hours; the show will transfer to Broadway later this month. A second McDonagh play, The Cripple of Inishmaan, opens this week at the Public Theater, in a new production directed by Broadway veteran Jerry Zaks...
...many, McDonagh seems to have emerged from out of nowhere, for years leading the garret life, writing plays in isolation in the South London house he shared with his brother, until two theaters--the Royal Court and the Druid Theatre in Galway--finally showed an interest in his work. Much has been made in the British press about his never having lived for any length of time in the Ireland he writes about so critically and so lushly. The question of his national origin is something of a biographical crux: Is he Irish or English? Everyone wants to know...
...smell is quite nice, particularly of cloves. Though it's in the coffeehouse you note such things. Not when your closet reminds you of the Druid. Not when you're jealous of your hydrangea plant...