Sons of Ulster
Advantages: A deep and moving play
Disadvantages: Long and slihtly cerebreal
This is a play I did a number of years ago whilst still at school. The play takes revolves around the lives of 8 characters, Irish protestant in origin and examines their lives in the context of the Irish entry into the second world war. The play is divid ...
 roseolihome 22.05.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme - Frank McGuinness
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A modern classic
Advantages: One of the most powerful plays of our time
Disadvantages: Relevance of subject may be lost with non- Northern Irish readers/viewers
Coming from Northern Ireland, I found this play perhaps more relevant than one who doesn't understand the history aand the divide may. However, the themes that it deals with are universally relevant, such as war and its effects, sectarianism and ethnic d ...
cormacbrown 19.04.2005 · Read full review
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Complex Oedipus
Advantages: Absolutely brilliantly written and plotted
Disadvantages: Umm... er...
Oedipus is considered by many people, including Aristotle who used it as the model of a perfect tragedy in his “poetics”, to be the finest tragedy ever written. I am one of these people, and given that I have a tendancy to detest books I studied at school ...
Muswell 16.04.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Oedipus Rex - Sophocles
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Eatapus
Advantages: Classic Greek drama
Disadvantages: Won't appeal to everyone
I’ve always been kind of interested in Greeks and mythology, but it was something I never really took up. In the course of my degree, however, I studied both Plato and Aristotle, and their thoughts on Greek art and drama in particular. In ancient Greek so ...
a-true-ben 09.01.2004 · Read full review
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Psychological Torture
Advantages: It's painfully real
Disadvantages: Dim, disturbing, and political (in case you don't like political theatre)
One for the Road (1984)
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Harold Pinter
The play begins with a supposedly religious man-in-authority called Nicholas' interrogation of Victor who is just an intellectual. The title "One for the Road" is a reference to the glasses of whisky that Ni ...
sottovoce82 16.01.2008 · Read full review
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