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Sat 10 Oct 2008Why the surprise of the new matters
THEATRE:Interactions: Dublin Theatre Festival 1957-2007Edited by Nicholas Greneand Patrick LonerganCarysfort Press, 388pp, €25
I ARRIVED IN DUBLIN for the first time in late September, 1985. I stepped off an Aer Lingus flight jet-lagged and wide-eyed, and wandered smack into the middle of that year's Dublin Theatre Festival. I recall hearing a strangely mesmerising talk by Robert Wilson that afternoon, catching an early evening show (possibly Peter Schumann's Ex Voto), and ending the day at a late-night production of Barry McGovern's one-man Beckett show, I'll Go On.
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