“The Anxiety of Influence” on the London Stage
A few weeks ago, I was in London for theatre and food. While the nosh was delicious, it’s the stage …
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Shelter From the Storm: Conor McPherson’s “Girl From the North Country”
Girl From the North Country Written and Directed by Conor McPherson Music and Lyrics by Bob Dylan The Old Vic, …
Girl From the North Country: Fan Fun
When Ciarán Hinds is in a play, I like to create a souvenir of some kind, to mark the occasion …
Girl From the North Country: Musical Prognostication
By my count, Bob Dylan has written or co-written 657 songs. So what are my chances of predicting which songs …
Girl From The North Country
If asked to pick just one favorite Dylan song, would you be able to? He wrote so many for the …
The Night Alive at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast
I really wish I could see this! Conor McPherson is again directing his play, but this time with a very …
Conor McPherson’s “St. Nicholas”
Few of us exercise the memory much, but actors do. They think nothing of memorizing page after page of a script; …
Mark O’Rowe’s Terminus (2007)
In October, we will travel to Dublin to see Mark O’Rowe’s new play Our Few and Evil Days, which is being …
A Wretched Wreck On Ice-Cold Seas
At any given moment, a theater group somewhere is presenting Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer, a modern classic. At the moment, …
My Philosophy of Fandom
Yes, I actually worked out a philosophy, based on Plato’s Theory of Ideas and Aristotle’s Ethics. Then there’s my Jungian …
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