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Innovative director Barnes-storms across `Western World'.(Arts and Lifestyle)

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From: The Boston Herald
Date: 20041101
Author:Byrne, Terry

Byline: TERRY BYRNE

Director Ben Barnes cut his teeth working on new Irish plays, including the darkly brooding works of Tom Murphy, the surrealism of Marina Carr and the poetry of Frank McGuinness.

But when Barnes was named artistic director of Dublin's legendary Abbey Theatre in 2000, he was eager to reach out to an international community with the repertory while continuing to engage audiences at home. This year, as the Abbey celebrates a century of producing Irish drama, Barnes is taking one of the theater's classics, J.M. Synge's "The Playboy of the Western World," ...

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