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Wed 03 Mar 2009A rapid response to a modern war
The enthusiasm here for staging ‘Seven Jewish Children’ sharply contrasts with criticism of Caryl Churchill’s play overseas, writes PETER CRAWLEY
MOVING THROUGH Dublin last weekend, a person could be forgiven for thinking that Caryl Churchill’s new play was suddenly everywhere. Excerpts spilled out from the morning radio shows. A group of five performers declaimed it from sheaves of tattered paper on the corner of Merrion Row above the burble of traffic. Among the book stalls of Temple Bar Square another small troupe performed it with still more discretion, slipping between unsuspecting browsers unsure whether they had overheard lines from a scripted drama or a quiet, private conversation.
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