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...best ensemble cast since Nicholas Nickleby, performing the most elegant and rueful memory play since Broadway Bound, if not The Glass Menagerie. In a weary and mutually tolerant Irish family of five sisters and a brother, playwright Brian Friel finds a whole world, pagan and Christian, ancient and modern, savage and sedate. Through a lifetime of theatergoing, one would be lucky to see acting any better than this...
Behind Vatican II's reconsideration of the Virgin and some of the uneasiness expressed over her populist revival, say feminists, is a concern over making Mary into a competitive divinity, a tradition common to many of the pagan religions that Christianity superseded. Remarks Warner: "The great terror is that she will be worshipped above...
...away, comes to call. The Mundy women live in memory too, of better days and higher hopes. So does their weary brother Jack, a defrocked priest sent home from his mission in Africa for embracing local gods and customs. Suffused through the background are the inescapable memories of Ireland: pagan revelry and medieval Christian learning, invasion and oppression, the landlord's power and the peasant's scorn...
...This ceremony marked the transition to adulthood and followed months of instruction in the use of plants and herbs in healing. Bernard, now in his late 30s, was among the last of his cult to be initiated. Acting in deference to a Catholic abbot who regarded the traditions as pagan, N'donazi's father, a convert, ordered the destruction of the male house, where boys acquired the learning of their elders. With that, a cultural and medical tradition that extended back to antiquity went up in flames...
...long gone." Director Boris Pokrovsky had the imaginative idea of using dolls to represent the main characters from time to time, but conductor Aleksander Lazarev sees Mlada's importance in musical terms: "Mlada's music is aimed at this 20th century of ours. Its living lines extend to the pagan music of Stravinsky and Prokofiev...