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Archive for July, 2006

Lee Blessing, Playwright

Posted in Interviews, New Yorkers, Theatre, tagged , on July 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

First Published: The Irish Times, July 26, 2006
IN THE WEEKS following the events of September 11th, 2001, Lee Blessing found himself receiving phone calls about a play that he had written more than 10 years previously. That play was Two Rooms, an unflinchingly dark exploration of personal suffering and political failure, of terror and of [...]

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Odetta

Posted in Interviews, Music, New Yorkers, tagged , on July 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

First Published: The Irish Times, June 24, 2006
IN AUGUST 1969, when  ABC Television’s Johnny Cash Show was at the height of its popularity, the folk singer Odetta made a guest appearance. A duet with Cash was on the cards, and the producers had in mind what they thought was the perfect number: the American spiritual [...]

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Joe Dowling, Director

Posted in Interviews, Ireland, Theatre, tagged , , on July 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

First Published: The Irish Times, July 1, 2006
Not long after he became artistic director of the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, word of just how big a success Joe Dowling had proven in that role made its way back to Ireland. There was talk of billboards. There was talk of pictures on the sides of buses.
Dowling, [...]

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