Word: dublin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still sing along to a movie four months after it opens, it probably deserves to be here. The music in Alan Parker's let's-put-the-show- on-right- here-in-Dublin entertainment is classic '60s rhythm and blues performed by white folks with a brogue, but the spirit is reverent and genial, not culturally imperialistic. The soul is part Wilson Pickett, part early Beatles; the guts are supplied by 16-year-old lead singer Andrew Strong. See this roadhouse lark again and feel better about...
...CHIEFTAINS: THE BELLS OF DUBLIN (RCA Victor). Is it too late for season's greetings? Not when they're as enterprising and altogether buoyant as this collection of Christmas songs by the great Irish traditional band, who augment their fiddles, harpsichord and Uilleann Pipes with vocal accompaniment by such % diverse characters as Elvis Costello, Rickie Lee Jones and Marianne Faithfull. A real Christmas treat...
...SHADOW OF A GUNMAN. Sean O'Casey went on to write better plays and the new Irish troupe that bears his name may go on to better stagings, but both show to advantage in this tragicomedy about the Troubles in Dublin of 1920. The touring show, directed by the playwright's daughter Shivaun, is at Washington's Kennedy Center until...
...cast members, from Dublin's Abbey Theater, are amazingly fresh and spontaneous in roles that half of them have been playing since April 1990, when the play premiered in Ireland. Yet the performances also have the delicacy and nuance that comes from long consideration. They suggest all the tacit tolerance, the willful blindness, that makes family life possible, and also the tragic inevitability that even inside a household there will be competition, and some survivors will prove fitter than others...
...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...