Brian Dennehy's performance at the Mark Taper Forum is forceful and heartfelt, but the Sebastian Barry play that nods to Irish history lacks momentum. Whatever form Irish novelist and playwright Sebastian Barry happens to be working in, you can be sure that he will be drunk with language. Words make him swoon. He loves the way they sound and slide off each other, the singsong rhythms they fall into under his wand, th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AM on December 10, 2013