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JAMES JOYCE'S THE DEAD.(Brief Article)

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From: American Theatre
Date: 20000701
Author:DAVEY, SHAUN; NELSON, RICHARD

An after-Christmas party in 1904 Dublin reveals with profound and unsettling clarity the fragility of human relationships and the nature of individual isolation. From James Joyce's masterful story in Dubliners, Tony-winning playwright Richard Nelson and composer Shaun Davey have fashioned a unique musical play, praised by critic Ben Brantley of the New York Times as "one of the season's most astonishing and laudable accomplishments," and by Linda Winer of Newsday as "emotionally delicate yet harrowing, refined yet gutsy, a strange and wonderful snapshot from the turn of the last ...

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