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George O'Brien: An Irish Playwright for an Irish Tale by Hannah Hessel Ratner

As a longtime professor at Georgetown University, George O’Brien kept his classes lively by always exploring new perspectives. Planning a lesson on John Millington Synge’s Irish classic The Playboy of the Western World, O’Brien started looking at both the characters and the actors who played them. He discovered that Molly Allgood (performing under the stage name Maire O’Neill) not only perform…

SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 05:57PM on September 2, 2014

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