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Weales, Gerald
that he and his wife explore the facts of their son's illness as if reading the Bible, and exercising regularly in the hopes that he they were learning a foreign language that led to their...
...RICHARD ALLEVA narrowness, the essential seriousness of their situation does not rub off on the play itself...
...He is a difficult man, The event drives Teddy into memory-wracked retirement and a drinker, an Irishman uncomfortable with his power which, as Grace to suicide...
...Virtually any sort lesting more than thirty-five young boys...
...ing, at least for now, in the case of James of person can become a parent...
...The most obvious explanation for the successful fatal evening when Frank returns to Ireland...
...Yet Frank McGuinness's Someone Who'll who" of theological scholars...
...The Englishman is prim, buttoned-up, his natural stand- MCNISA orders accepted...
...Recognizing travels through villages outside Ireland (the play begins and what awaits him, he walks toward his murderers with confiends with a litany of place names), holding minuscule meet- dence, perhaps exhilaration...
...Their exploit was amazing considering that neither had a med- Although the American is killed and the Irishman eventualical background...
...It is a work that up dog acts and other such legitimate clients to serve as agent resonates long after the house lights come up, teasing the defor Frank...
...left the priesthood-and already found abhorrent...
...As for Christ in Asia?, The Spectre of Mass Death, Resurrection or Reincarnation?, Migrants and Refugees, and Mass Media...
...It is a work, too, that indicates that Friel needs first monologues contradict one another on large and small de- neither dialogue nor shared scenes to show the attachment of tails, particularly on Grace's losing her child and on the last characters to one another...
...Gilbert Gauthe currence, shocks us as much as such sexwas sentenced to prison for sexually mo- ual abuse by clergymen...
...But Miller games, movie games, music games-and they share fantasies, has blazed this story onto the screen in short, economical seg- as when the Irishman and the Englishman fly away home, takments, with each shot, each cut, each pan or dolly, every place- ing turns spotting identifiable images on the imaginary landment of light and shadow revealing the core of the episode...
...Three impressive performances is not insists that his connection with them is only a professional ata bad haul for a theatergoer...
...more calculating than the hostage holders, has clearly selected the three men for their nationalities as well as their personali- Please specify titles: ties...
...He final monologue, it is a kind of release for him...
...Although them...
...Just one sample: Lorenzo's nerve degen- old-fashioned play dressed up in modernist clothing...
...ity of men under stress to transcend their societally imposed Don't cheat yourself...
...In 1993: The Messiah in History, Is There Room provised cell, in an unidentified country in the Middle East...
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...of the church has been highly damaging...
...in the second act by an Englishman (Alec McCowen...
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...Each issue focuses on a single theme of known in this country, has set his play in a basement, an im- vital importance...
...Certainly it was my appreciation of the actors indifference to or anger at him most of the time, and Teddy's not the play that I carried out of the theater last December and unspoken love for Grace and his devotion to Frank even as he that has stayed with me...
...Just a new turn in Lorenzo's illness and sumably wants to make some kind of statement about the abiljust another display of his family's solidarity...
...The Irishman is garrulous, mixing jokes and whines, a bit randy, a man who has moved around the globe seeking not only Name jobs but release from the confines of the domesticity he now Address City/State/ZIP misses...
...just as often, they play games together-verbal Oil still would have gripped because of its substance...
...From Asia, Africa, North and Watch over Me, which I saw in early December, is still South America, and Europe, Concilium reflects the many facets playing...
...It might wife Grace, an Englishwoman who gave up her upper-class home have been a triumph if it were not that his release binds Grace to follow him, and by Teddy, a cockney showman who has given and Teddy more strongly to his and their pain...
...Too much of what they say and do seems to come not it heartwarmed titters from the audience, no poignant by-play from their need but from the playwright...
...Frank, on the other hand, seems genuinely separate from his two would-be protectors, a man eaten by guilt, horriThree good performances could be found in another fied by the life that he has had thrust upon him...
...Yet when we get that last terrible night in Frank's often as not, does not work but which he cannot give up...
...sometimes two of them join forces to atding literality that we see in most TV movies and Lorenzo's tack the third...
...Catholic church had "a secret just be- Not even the sexual abuse of children by tween Father and the altar boys...
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...Having come home to Ireland, the three of them join a Jarlath Conroy, Alda Cortese, and Tom Teti did well by the group of young men in the hotel bar and, after Grace and Teddy three characters who comprise the cast, it was the play that was go up to their rooms, Frank, who has failed to cure a man in a most fascinating...
...No verbal comment, no coy side glances to elic- ation...
...But, as he crams in libraries and networks at as they all have been, to his corner of the cell, the play has very conferences, Odone's intensity, desperation, and lack of sleep little plot...
...Nolte never lets us forget that the center of this man vive...
...It's scape...
...tachment...
...Although the play preor heartrending mime...
...Peter Steinfels their parents, a much more frequent ocTwo years later, the Rev...
...Irish play recently when the People's Light and They all agree on his greatest triumph-a night in which he Theatre Company, one of the Philadelphia area's apparently cured all his audience/congregation-and on the horlong-established professional companies, revived ror of that last night...
...The information on the characters that I give here parting audience with ideas about the giving, the resisting, the should be taken with a soupcon of suspicion because the three accepting of gifts...
...It consists of brief scenes-bridged by Ella Fitzgerald's combine to make him seem, at times, clownish, bizarre, even recording of the title song-in which the three men try to surunhinged...
...nearly mesmerizing account of the case of widely publicized scandals, culminat- Although the perpetrators may consti- of Father Gauthe...
...can keep sound in mind and body until his release...
...They quarrel with one another, often reacting less to the is supremely reasonable even when his exterior is fraying...
...What comes run of the play must lie in the performances of McCowen, Rea, through is Grace's deep love for Frank although she pretends and McDaniel...
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...For the Catholic church nationally, guilty in one case occurring after his lai- The first 170 pages of this book are a Gauthe's case seemed to open a new era cization...
...The investigation ul- lesting at least ninety-five children in five cred, a fact that makes his betrayal of trust timately implicated a score of other church states between 1963 and 1974, when he and exploitation of authority all the more workers in similar sexual offenses...
...person alongside them than to stereotypical images that they George Miller could have directed his script with all the plod- carry in their heads...
...His training was economics, hers in languages ly released, leaving the Englishman crouched and alone, chained, and literature...
...It consists of four monologues, the first and wheelchair, is beaten to death by the group...
...It is the details in both cases that confuse Brian Friel's 1979 play Faith Healer...
...Finally, it seems to be less a dramatSTAGE ic presentation of an important theme than a vehicle for three A GOOD HAUL 'SOMEONE' & 'FAITH HEALER' CONCILIUM The Theological Journal of the 90s Now Available from Orbis Books I is one of the platitudes of theater criticism that straight plays-selected comedies excepted cannot survive on Founded in 1965 and published six times a year, Concilium is a world-wide journal whose contributors embody a "who's Broadway...
...In one silent to catch the horror of open-ended incarceration, isolation withscene, the camera travels around the supper table as each out the promise of escape, although the activities that the men Odone matter-of-factly eats spaghetti with the fingers just as devise to sustain themselves undermine the pain of their situLorenzo does...
...It attempts eration makes him incapable of holding a fork...
...that he and his wife explore the facts of their son's illness as if reading the Bible, and exercising regularly in the hopes that he they were learning a foreign language that led to their success...
...the play begins there are two prisoners-an Irishman (Stephen Rea, recently nominated for an Oscar in The Crying Game) and a black American (James McDaniel)-and they will be joined Subscribe Now...
...McGuinness, an Irish playwright not widely of the world church...
...He is the faith healer at last, healings in tiny halls, and he is accompanied (looked after) by his ing himself of the darkness that he has carried with him...
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...Welcome home...
...The American, the character with whom the playwright is least comfortable, is direct, straightforward, Commonweal 12 March 1993: 15 performers...
...the last by Frank, the titular faith healer...
...There is something almost abstract in these survival turns as if a master of haiku had learned how to employ his art to as though Someone were a cousin of Waiting for Godot or an narrate a long novel...
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