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News from the north: a Dublin renaissance

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19920308
Author:Hedy Weiss

DUBLIN Ireland has produced such great playwrights as Richard Sheridan, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, J.M. Synge, Sean O'Casey, Samuel Beckett and Brendan Behan.

And as Dublin's principal theaters, the Abbey and the Gate, engage in healthy competition, some say Irish theater is in the midst of a renaissance. They point to Brian Friel (whose "Dancing at Lughnasa" has proved a triumph in London and on Broadway) and to Tom Murphy (whose beautiful drama, "The Gigli Concert," is now receiving a splendid production at Chicago's Court Theatre), and to the fact that these writers and other ...

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