Word: juno
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK...
Grief is the wood-note wild of the Irish soul. Rarely has a people's sorrow been sounded with such resonant purity as it is in Sean O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock. Despite moments of bathos and some soap operatics in the construction of the plot, this play is one of the granitic masterworks of modern dramatic...
...being given a splendid revival in Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum Theater, with Walter Matthau in the role of the vainglorious Captain Boyle, Jack Lemmon as his bar "butty" Joxer, and Maureen Stapleton as his earth mother wife Juno. How did this particular production come about? Matthau and Lemmon had wanted to do the play for some tune, preferably with Stapleton. They approached Gordon Davidson, the energetic artistic director of the Mark Taper, and gave him a commitment for a five-week limited run, which was sold out by opening night...
...exuberantly evident on the boards of the Mark Taper. Tragedy or not, the players are celebrating the joy of acting. Tragedy or not, what is O'Casey celebrating? A trinity of profound, if currently unfashionable values-God, country and family. Not for a single moment during Juno and the Paycock is one unaware that Roman Catholicism, Ireland and the Boyles' intense awareness of themselves as an embattled entity have shaped the people that we see before us. Not for the good, necessarily. O'Casey had as sharp an eye as James Joyce for the foibles...
Much of Woodhouse's expertise was applied to the training of her two Great Danes, Juno and Junia, who appeared in more than 100 British films. Until their deaths, she never traveled; she was unwilling to leave her pets. Now she has just returned from a grueling tour of the U.S.: in 21 days, she appeared on 20 television programs and 15 radio shows to publicize Dog Training My Way, recently published in the U.S. (She has also written The A to Z of Dogs and Puppies, The Book of Ponies, and Talking to Animals, all stressing her training...