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...Best actress: Sara Allgood, as ill-used, valiant-hearted Juno in the revival of Sean O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock...
...Juno and the Paycock. Revival of Sean O'Casey's gutbustingly funny, heartbreakingly tragic Irish drama (TIME...
...Juno and the Paycock shows a family meeting a tragic fate through the weaknesses of a comic character. The Paycock's artful dodges and arrant hypocrisies, his braggart airs and grandly drunken delusions, are uproariously funny. But eventually his besotted dance is over and the piper must be paid. Then the light falls on Juno, who-her son murdered, her daughter betrayed, her home destroyed-goes forth, heart crumpled but head high, to begin life over...
...tragic last act of Juno and the Paycock is spoiled by wanton melodrama. Too late, too violently, O'Casey pushes the son and daughter into the limelight. Their fate-not having the full force of the play behind it -seems manipulated, its effect on Juno mawkish. But it is proof of O'Casey's real power that his Paycock should remain comic from start to finish. The Paycock is a callous wastrel for whom O'Casey has only bitter scorn; but he is a born "character," and O'Casey lets him cut his capers without...
...current revival of Juno and the Paycock, two distinguished Abbey Theatre players-Sara Allgood and Barry Fitzgerald-act the title roles (long familiar to them) with wonderful skill and spirit. Actor Fitzgerald's is the showier part, but Actress Allgood gives the more memorable performance. The supporting cast is feeble...