Recent Theatre
Despite working in radio he continues to direct for the theatre. His recent productions include two Irish plays performed in Belfast and a tour:The Butterfly of Killybegs by Brian Foster, a comic play, set in the 1960s, about a young woman trying to grow up against the background of a suffocating invalid mother and an oppressive rural town and New York State of Mind by Sam McCready, a play about an Irish actor trying to succeed in America while leaving his roots and family behind.
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Famous quotes containing the word theatre:
“Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise.... I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.”
—Mary Pickford (1893–1979)
“The theatre is supremely fitted to say: “Behold! These things are.” Yet most dramatists employ it to say: “This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.””
—Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)