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Mon 08 Aug 2010The Silver Tassie
Town Hall Theatre, Galway
Druid’s ambitious new production, directed by Garry Hynes, recognises a play full of jarring juxtapositions – a tragi-comedy about horror and loss which is full of movement and song – and it challenges the received wisdom that O’Casey’s work involves three realistic acts and one expressionistic detour into a symbolic battleground in France. From the moment Eamon Morrissey and John Olohan take to the stage, as two ever-present bowler-hatted codgers arguing about the specifics of a brawl, Hynes presents a play of expressive leaps and considered significance.
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