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Adapted by Richard E. Nash '92 from the writings of modernist Irish author Flann O'Brien, Hair of the Dogma is an intriguing, confusing, play. And in its own absurd but highly credible way, it is very funny...
...Nash is also the producer, director and sole member of the cast. He is also a bartender of sorts, offering Guinness stout to the most clever heckler in the audience...
Adapted by Richard Nash...
...Nash plays several manifestations of his dramatic self. One, his namesake, directs and oversees the scripted action. The other players are a pedantic and highly affected professor; an Irish lad of 20 with many a fantastic tale to weave; and "YER MAN," the principal narrator who is engaged in a conspiracy to overthrow Nash...
...essence the play is a debate about the independence of art from the artist. Through use of a tape-recorder, the narrator and the director exchange insults. "YER MAN" refuses to perform large sections of the play out of spite, Nash threatens to slap him with hemorrhoids. The narrator, a seasoned artistic creation, joins the union of characters who meet surreptitiously in the recesses of the writer's mind to plot his overthrow. He laments the creation of new, politically native characters who flood the job market...