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...Cassidy's terrible anger may set audiences to sniggering a bit, especially after his unbelievably swift rise in the Irish literary world ruled by Lady Gregory (Dame Edith Evans) and Poet W. B. Yeats (Michael Redgrave). On the riotous opening night of The Plough and the Stars, the historic disturbance inside the Abbey Theatre somehow seems less crucial than the playwright's muscular performance in the outer lobby, where Taylor enthusiastically flattens a couple of idlers, rounding out Cassidy's unfinished portrait of the artist as a young tough...
Even if the Coop attains the new sales level, it will have almost no money left to plough back into its capital improvement fund. Last year the Coop put $152,598 into this fund. Most of this money is now being used to finance the Palmer St. expansion, Morrill said...
...Plough and the Stars, Sean O'Casey's drama about the Irish Easter Rebellion, has a macabre relevance to America's civil rights movement. The play asks, what is a cause worth you? Is it as palpable, as loving as a wife or son? Is a futile cause worth a hero's death, or is wasted bravery worse than cowardice...
What makes The Plough and the Stars so enchanting for an American is its rich yet unselfconscious Irish slang. Even the simplest expression of emotion have a special liveliness, a weightless presence that sticks in the mind. The actors handle this language with such ease that one could not imagine them speaking any other...
...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 not honorably or sentimentally...