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Play Reviews: Easter Rising

... Easter Rising BRIGHTON IN PRESENTING John Foley's Easter Rising at the Sea House. Brighton Actors' Workshop seemed to giving a brief glimpse of a much longer play. It had no real beginning or outcome and throughout seemed to suggest a considerably more ...

Published: Thursday 29 May 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 131 | Page: 11 | Tags: theatre review 

Theatre Reviews: Terrible Beauty

... Irish. She became a leading figure in the Irish Citizens' Army, seeing active service in the Easter rising of 1916, and in the Irish labour movement, rising to become the first woman minister in any European country as Minister of Labour in the new Irish ...

Published: Thursday 24 August 1995
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 230 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

Theatre Reviews: The Yeats Season

... and On Baile's Strand draw on historical figures to interpret Yeats' personal and political concerns the first, the 1916 Easter rising, the second, his sense of grief at not having a son. Comic twc-hander The Cat and the Moon, on the other hand, is a quirky ...

Published: Thursday 19 June 1997
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 265 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

Regional Reviews: The Plough and the Stars

... ultimately brutal and brutalised in the name of a struggle that few ordinary people knew or understood on the eve of the 1916 Easter Rising. Dowling's direction shows a fine hand, with both precision and attention to detail, and a free-wheeling answered by men ...

Published: Thursday 30 March 1989
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 288 | Page: 14 | Tags: theatre review 

THEATREREVIEW-BACKETT FESTIVAL: The waiting is still worthwhile

... tyrant. Playing it this way gave a political edge to Stephen Brennan's Lucky, changing from stooped serfdom to a sort of Easter Rising to deliver a frenzied tirade that won him enthusiastic acclaim on the Barbican first night. Beckett never explains the ...

Published: Thursday 23 September 1999
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 478 | Page: 14 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Hate

... his country. At the family level, there are pat riarch and loveless mother gathering their brood for 'an announcement' at Easter son made in his father's image, son with a defective mysticism, and daughter who has rebelled, but who may yet be brought ...

Published: Thursday 12 January 1989
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 328 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

Theatre Reviews: No Trams to Lime Street

... corrector Keith. Strachan, is staged as a vibrant memorial to Alun Owen in its world premiere at the Playhouse. The curtain rises on one of a selection of amazing scenes by Terry Parsons, a cross-section of a ship crammed with lusty matelots arriving in ...

Published: Thursday 16 November 1995
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 321 | Page: 14 | Tags: theatre review 

HIS MAJESTY'S

... whether the fateful word commer cial can be labelled on to it is another matter. To a small baker's shop in 'Sor rento, on Easter morning, comes a vague, wandering, and apparently simple-witted young man. His strange behaviour and talk, and his payment ...

Published: Thursday 27 July 1950
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 570 | Page: 10 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES. THE

... McNay and Hewion Elliott. The Lady of Oslend is preceded by a now one-act play, written by A. Deraain Grange, entitled At the Rising of the Moon. George Kavnnagh Mr. Harold M. McNa, Terence O'Flaherty Mr. Frank (Jaffry Derry O'Blane Mr. F.dmund (iuroey Noran ...

Published: Thursday 04 April 1901
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 13355 | Page: 12, 13, 14 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES

... PECKHAM. Captain Leigh V.C. (the play originally entitled Sister Mary) proves a powerful attraction for the Easter holidays, and at the rising of the curtain on Monday evening there was not a vacant s)at any where in the house. With the present adequate ...

Published: Thursday 19 April 1900
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 13795 | Page: 12, 13, 14 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES

... at all. He rendered 44 Salve Diinora with much feeling and expression, aud also saug with taste in the Garden act, besides rising to the occasion with success in the Duel und Prison scenes. A tol-rably good Waguer was found iu M. Weiucgradoff. Ml*. Harrison ...

Published: Thursday 18 April 1895
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 9700 | Page: 12, 13 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES. COV

... scenes where Santuzza pleads with Turiddu, and then, on being spurned, tells Alfio all the shamoful story, whilo in tho earlier Easter festivities several pieces of effective, but unobtrusive, new business wore to be noted. Vocally, too, Madame Calv infused ...

Published: Thursday 18 July 1895
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6943 | Page: 10, 11 | Tags: theatre review