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"Belfast Girls" Updates the History Play by Jan Simpson

The girls aren't what they're expected to be in Belfast Girls, the new show that opened at the Irish Rep this week. They also aren't what we've come to expect to find in historical dramas like this one set in 1850 during the Irish famine in which about a million people starved to death and twice as many fled the country in search of a better life elsewhere.  And the unexpected makeup of these characters in a histo…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:12AM on May 21, 2022

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