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THEATER
The new production of Sean O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock by New York's Roundabout Theatre Company opens with newsreel footage of the Irish "troubles" -- the period that began at Easter 1916 when Dublin's Irish Republicans first faced off with the British army. We've read a great deal about that era in both poetry and prose. Still, it's...
To Be Effective, Historical Drama Must Bring the Point Home
By STEVE VINEBERGThe new production of Sean O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock by New York's Roundabout Theatre Company opens with newsreel footage of the Irish "troubles" -- the period that began at Easter 1916 when Dublin's Irish Republicans first faced off with the British army. We've read a great deal about that era in both poetry and prose. Still, it's...
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