Word: iras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wanted to do it for Ireland because they've done a terrible thing to us. They've made it so that Irish people can't seem to stand up for their own identity without it being in some way associated with the IRA, and I want to create another avenue for expression. And I'm trying to give others the opportunity who have had the same experience as Ireland to come out with it too. We're all fighting each other, but we have one enemy in common. I say it's the Roman Empire and the Vatican...
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Arena Stage, the leading theater in the nation's capital, plainly doesn't think so. Nor do audiences for its zesty production: they find startling topicality in gibes that weren't born yesterday. Says artistic director Douglas Wager: "Apart from revisiting the librettists' first draft and incorporating some of Ira Gershwin's alternate lyrics, we haven't updated a thing. We haven't had to." The librettists were Morrie Ryskind and, ironically, Kaufman, who despite his woes with satire kept at it anyway. The humor is neither as rich nor as heartfelt as in his You Can't Take...