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Wednesday, October 18, 2017

The lie that poverty is a moral failing was buried a century ago. Now it’s back | Fintan O’Toole by Fintan O'Toole

George Bernard Shaw knew that the rich are no better than the poor. But though the argument seemed settled then, it now rages more fiercely than everIf you know Alfred Doolittle only from St…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AM
Thursday, November 12, 2015

'The Lion King' turns popular cartoon into art: 1997 review by Fintan O'Toole

Broadway has long known how to take real people and turn them into two-dimensional cartoons. Julie Taymor has done it the other way round.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:02PM
Monday, April 16, 2012

The characters in 'Porgy and Bess' are comfortable in their skins; we should be, too - The Irish Times - Sat, Apr 14, 2012 by Fintan O'Toole

IMAGINE A radical new production of The Playboy of the Western World. The director decides that some of the critics of the play in 1907 were right after all. They maintained that Synge was a…

SOURCE: The Irish Times at 06:38AM
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