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For the last several weeks an organization dubbed Theatre Today has been acting Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars in an airtight dungeon off Twenty-sixth Street. Since the truth has to be printed in this column now and then to hold the franchise, it is necessary to point out that Theatre Today is unable to do a very good job. Perhaps that impression is due partly to the fact that many of us still hear in O’Casey’s sinewy lines the echoes of some great theatre voices — those of Barry Fitzgerald, F.J. McCormick, Michael Dolan, Maureen Delany, May Craig, Eileen Crowe, Ria Mooney, to mention some of the actors in the old Abbey Theatre company.
The New York Times (2 Apr. 1950).
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© 1982 Brooks Atkinson and Robert G. Lowery
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Atkinson, B. (1982). Paradox of O’Casey. In: Lowery, R.G. (eds) Sean O’Casey. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05667-5_44
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