Word: rebellion
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...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...
Writing in 1926, ten years after the Easter Rebellion, O'Casey can answer these questions, because he can see Ireland's causes in a harsh historical glare. His characters uselessly throw away their lives in a meaningless fight, meaningless because of their empty motivation. Afraid to admit its own fear and surrender at the barricades, the Irish Citizen Army faces overwhelming British forces, and falls...
...above the enchantment of the Irish humor hangs the shadow of the rebellion's failure. And our foreknowledge of this doom turns the humor slightly sour, adds to the ironic effect of each scene. At the end both the humor and the idealism have become bitter disillusionment...
...raises his voice, it is impressive. But if I do, they say I'm hysterical, so I try to hypnotize them instead," she admits. Her limp sometimes becomes more conspicuous if she seems to be in danger of losing an argument with a temperamental soprano. When total rebellion looms on an imminent horizon, she has been known to quell it by warning that one more word will bring on a heart attack. Nonetheless, as a spokesman for the Metropolitan Opera said last week, "She gets an artist to the right place at the right time so that...
...Baltimore Theater Owner Ronald L. Freedman challenged a Maryland law making it illegal to show any film not approved and licensed by the state censorship board. Freedman did so by refusing to let the censors screen a non-obscene movie: Revenge at Daybreak, a French film about the Irish Rebellion that the board admittedly would have licensed had Freedman submitted it. Freedman was fined $25, and Maryland's highest court upheld the conviction. When Freedman appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, Maryland argued that precensorship of movies is necessary to prevent commercial exploitation of obscenity...