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...acted in the 1960 Broadway play "Face of a Hero" and followed it with "Idiot's Delight" and "Juno and the Paycock...
...R.S.C. fare in London and Stratford, where the company runs the Royal Shakespeare Theater and an experimental house called the Other Place, showed the company in hot pursuit of both ends of the spectrum. In London, besides the astonishing Nicholas, the company offered an excellent Juno and the Paycock, with a force-of-nature performance by Judi Dench, and, at the Warehouse, a shattering Trevor Nunn staging of The Three Sisters: spare, witty and primal, featuring extraordinary performances by three of the company's young comers (Emily Richard, Janet Dale, Suzanne Bertish) and some of its stalwarts, including Roger...
...Fitzgerald), who unfalteringly loves him, his mettlesome daughter Sara, who is increasingly roused to hate. Yet each inspires in him only a more desolating sense of aloneness. In the costly family game of lies and consequences, Con bears more than a few resemblances to O'Casey's Paycock...
...Abbey Theater, now returned to the U.S., at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, for the first time in 38 years and touring on to Boston and Philadelphia. The Plough and the Stars is O'Casey's second-best play; his ineffable masterwork is Juno and the Paycock. This production might well be called The Plough. It is workmanlike but never, for a moment, lyrically incandescent...
...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 of his race...