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The Steward of Christendom (Modern Plays)
by: Sebastian Barry

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
EAN: 9780413718204
ISBN: 0413718204
Label: Methuen Publishing
Manufacturer: Methuen Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: January 01, 2001
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
Studio: Methuen Publishing
Sales Rank: 147072

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Product Description:
The play that established Barry as one of Ireland's most powerful contemporary playwrights Thomas Dunne, ex-chief superintendent of the Dublin Metropolitan police looks back on his career built during the latter years of Queen Victoria's empire, from his home in Baltinglass in Dublin in 1932. Like King Lear, Dunne tries valiantly to break free of history and himself. The Steward of Christendom took London by storm when it premiered at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in March 1995 with Donal McCann in the title role. It transferred to Broadway and has toured around the world."Sebastian Barry's beautiful and devastating memory play will stay with us for many years." (New York Times)

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Masterpiece
It's no surprise that this play, one of the finest I have ever seen, won considerable international acclaim. I would not hesitate to rank it among the top ten masterpieces of 20th century drama.

Plays come and go, but this one, first produced at London's Royal Court in 1995, has all the hallmarks of a timeless treasure. It's drama, and poetry, full of unbelievably rich characterizations and history of Ireland's Time of Troubles.

Thomas Dunne, the seventy-something Da, anchors the play firmly, though not exactly in the play's here and now, about 1932.

Three of Da's four children have relegated him to an Irish county home, not for lack of love. No, Da's gone mad, as his effervescent lapses into the past make altogether real.

He is not so mad, though, ... Read More

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- If you can't see the play, you should still read it.
This is a wonderful play. I saw it performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and was drawn in by the beauty of the language and the power of the story. It's quiet, at first; and then the drama of a man left behind by history gradually insinuates itself into your consciousness and your heart.

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