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First there was the Charity Ward, and then the Plough and Stars. But both of these got crowded and confused real fast; and neither one of them ever got something of their own going. The Western Front has got Peter Bell going...
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...
...playwright's success is to have his works handled with a delicacy that, though born of respect, wreaks boredom. Sean O'Casey was anything but respected in his life-time and his country: the Irish press frequently denounced him, and a full-blown riot took place when The Plough and the Stars, his 1926 drama set against the rebellion of Easter 1916, opened at the Abbey Theatre. But in the United States, where O'Casey has long been championed by influential critics and directors, the controversy has grown remote. So remote that one of the most violent and forceful dramatists...
George Hamlin and Daniel Seltzer, the two associate directors of the Loeb, will each direct mainstage productions this Spring. Hamlin will do Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars, and Seltzer will do a still unnamed Shakespeare play...
...ciutch at ideas his mind is shaping, with mind too meager to clutch at ideas he'd like to shape, with creative ambitions that far exceed what greatness he can hope to claim, with material that will not yield its secrets, like rocky soil intractable to a battered plough...