Word: ploughing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...unexciting traversal of Giraudoux's Tiger at the Gates at Pi Eta. In the spring, Agassiz housed the group's intriguingly staged production of a poor dramatization of Voltaire's Candide. Back at Pi Eta, director Hancock had not sufficiently gelled his production of O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars by the opening; but, reportedly, it had greatly improved...