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Lädt ... Cyprus Avenue (Modern Plays) (2016. Auflage)von David Ireland (Autor)
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Gerry Adams has disguised himself as a newborn baby and successfully infiltrated my family home.Eric Miller is a Belfast Loyalist. He believes his five-week old granddaughter is Gerry Adams.His family keep telling him to stop living in the past and fighting old battles that nobody cares about anymore, but his cultural heritage is under siege. He must act.David Ireland's black comedy takes one man's identity crisis to the limits as he uncovers the modern day complexity of Ulster Loyalism.Cyprus Avenue was first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin in 2016, before transferring to the Royal Court Theatre, The MAC in Belfast and The Public Theater in New York. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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script of a play currently on in the Royal Court Theatre in London, a co-production with the Abbey Theatre, starring Stephen Rea as Eric, a Loyalist whose obsession with the idea that his daughter's baby is actually Gerry Adams drives the story through the blackest of black humour to a horrific conclusion. There are has some gloriously funny moments of banter as well as agonising interrogation of identity.
I never find it easy to judge how a script would come across on stage, and I was a bit concerned that the play might veer towards point-and-laugh-at-the-Prods. But from reviews, it sounds like the production has avoided that trap, and successfully made the wider point that sectarian hatred is something that we destructively do to ourselves. All identities are to an extent socially constructed, and we might as well accept that and move on. It's difficult to do that reflexively to both sides in Northern Ireland, but perhaps in a London show it's better to look at the Loyalists if you can only look at one. Anyway, I hope I'll have the chance to see this some day. ( )