Word: paycock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Playwright Sean O'Casey was an ag ing angry young man in the '20s when he wrote Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars. He was an angry old man of 69 when he wrote Coclc-A-Doodle Cock-A-Doodle the play he called his favorite. Audiences and producers have not generally agreed with his assessment; the play has rarely been staged during the 20 years since it was written, and its runs have been short...
...performance of The Drums of Father Ned, and in retaliation Sean O'Casey, 83, announced that nevermore would any of his plays be produced professionally in the Republic of Ireland. But Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre is due to perform two of his works-Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars-next year in London at a drama festival of companies from all over Europe. Naturally they want to do the plays justice, and they have asked permission to produce them in Dublin for a two or three weeks' trial run. "I could...
...Abbott Theatre (so called because Mr. Samuel Abbott is the director of the Juno and the Paycock now at the Loeb) is not, to be sure, the Abbey Theatre; but even on its own terms its new Juno is curiously lackluster. Not that it's poor--how could it be with actors like Andreas Teuber and Kenneth Tigar (or with a director like Abbott)--but why oh why isn't it any better...
...Loeb will present six plays, this Spring, in its busiest season ever. Sean O'casey's Juno and the Paycock will run March 21-23 and 27-30. The Cursed Dauncers, (April 10-13) is an original opera written especially for production at the Loeb. Two plays in German will be presented by the Student Theater of Kiel, Germany (April 19-20). The Braggart Warrior is a Latin comedy in a new translation (April 24-27); and Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I (May 9-11 and May 15-18) will follow Babe's play to the Loeb stage...
...Plough and the Stars (by Sean O'Casey) stands in the very first rank of modern plays. Among O'Casey's own, only Juno and the Paycock can challenge it; but though Juno has more memorable characters and richer comedy, its tragedy is dented with willful, stagy melodrama, where in The Plough and the Stars, tragedy and comedy are locked in an unshatterable embrace. In The Plough O'Casey found, if no better materials for tragedy, then an apter moment. Under the stress of turbulent historic events, amid the gunfire and bloodshed of the 1916 Easter...