Follows the O'Byrne Ranelagh family as they engage in an historic struggle countering English aggression in the 16th century, and cross to America in 1818.
Antonin Artaud is probably the single greatest force on the contemporary stage. In this harrowing play, Charles Marowitz draws on exclusive material obtained from friends and confidantes, depicting a series of imaginary scenes based upon the true incidents of Artaud's life and his incarceration as a madman in the asylum at Rodez. Using Artaud's own Theatre of Cruelty techniques Marowitz tells what is perhaps the cruelest story of all: the way in which society methodically destroys the maverick artist who attempts to defy it. Also included in this edition are exclusive interviews with leading avant-garde figures such as Roger Blin and Arthur Adamov as well as first-hand testimony from Artaud's own psychiatrist, Dr Gaston Ferdiere and Artaud's sister, Marie-Ange Malaussena.
Follows the O'Byrne Ranelagh family as they engage in an historic struggle countering English aggression in the 16th century, and cross to America in 1818.
At a beach club dinner dance in Newport, Rhode Island, Charlie meets Filippa, the exquisitely beautiful daughter of the Swedish delegate to the World Bank in Washington. Filippa works as special assistant to the Director of the National Gallery of Art, focusing her world travel, classical education, and five languages on negotiations with directors of American and foreign galleries and ministers of culture. Her parents and younger sister reside in Washington's Watergate. The very independent Filippa lives in her own little house in Georgetown. Radiating confidence that she knows what to do with her life, she shows kindness and warmth that charm all who meet her. Charlie and Filippa fall in love and plan to marry. The promise of grandchildren makes CL deeply happy. His family, now seven generations in America and reaching back forty generations in Ireland, will carry on. Yet Fate watches this family. Byrne's people believe that those gifted with talents to do things, own the duty to do them to the best of their ability life-long, unswerving. CL, Charlie, and Filippa each strive to do their duty as they see it. Professionally they achieve greatly. Privately they surpass their human weaknesses to enact a triumph.
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