Word: ploughing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a $3 top, have risen as high as $4.95. Yet no more than three or four out of 100 off-Broadway productions ever go into the black. The cost of putting on a play has rocketed. In 1953, a revival of Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars was staged for $400. Today, it could not be duplicated for much less than $15,000, the current average production cost...
...Squibb & Sons, N.Y.C., $450,000; Carter Products Inc., N.Y.C., $441,000; Parke-Davis & Co., Detroit, $417,540; Plough Inc., Memphis, $375,000; Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N.J., $350,000; Burroughs, Wellcome & Co., Tuckahoe, N.Y., $329,058; Ames Co. Inc., Elkhart, Ind., $302,162; Baxter Laboratories Inc., Morton Grove, Ill., $208,078; Pitman-Moore Co., Indianapolis, $178,980; Kendall Co., Boston, $159,323; Richardson-Merrill, Greensboro, N.C., $155,000; Atlas Chemical Industry, Wilmington, $149,282; Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, Hanover, N.J., $137,260. Under...
...states that the term Grundyism was inspired by Pennsylvania's stiff-collared conservative and onetime G.O.P. State Chairman Joe Grundy. I believe, however, that the term was originally inspired by the prudish and narrowminded Mrs. Grundy, a person referred to in Thomas Morton's comedy Speed the Plough...
...Plough and the Stars is a properly orchestrated tragedy, but less a tragedy of war or even of civil war than of national character, of all that is left undone in working to achieve a great objective and then is too badly managed to achieve it. For O'Casey, even in 1926, there was still real use in crying over spilt blood. But, never gnawing a thesis, he made his tragedy vibrate with harsh humor and pulse with humanity...
Eminently deserving revival, The Plough should have a great Irish one. The Phoenix Theater's production lacks more than Irishness; it is not dramatic or revealing or resonant enough. The play does stir sleepily all evening, though it takes scenes of brawling to bring it really to life, or the great final curtain to assert its piercing ironic force...