Lyttelton, LondonHoward Davies brilliantly handles Seán O'Casey's blend of Dublin realism and expressionismSeán O'Casey's tumultuous play has always posed a problem: how to reconcile its authentic Dublin realism with its expressionist evocation of the horrors of the first world war. That stylish disconnect was one of the reasons Yeats brutally rejected the play for the Abbey theatre in 1928. But director Ho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:43AM on April 24, 2014