MELTING JIGS INTO DIRGES Whether it's a Jewish family in Awake and Sing! or a black one in A Raisin in the Sun, poverty grinds down its unloved ones and prejudice finishes the kill. As steeped in the details of deprivation as the later Irish clan in Angela's Ashes, Sean O'Casey's 1922 masterpiece uses the Irish Civil War (which killed […]
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:11PM on May 3, 2014