Word: plainsong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cradle Song, a fable about a love affair between an abandoned infant and the nuns of a Spanish convent. Visually, it was as attractive as anything seen this year, with the beautiful faces of novices hanging raptly over the child's crib and their lullabies blending with the plainsong devotions from the chapel. The play was dreamlike, as sweet as a sugar bun and scarcely more substantial, but it was also sunlit with innocence and warmly acted by Judith Anderson. Evelyn Varden. Deirdre Owens and. particularly, by Ireland's Siobhan (pronounced Shivaun) McKenna...