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Beauty in a Broken Place

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I've lived in Dublin for four months now, and seen a few plays in my time here. The best by far was Toibin's Beauty in a Broken Place, performed at the Peacock Theatre on Abbey Street.
I learned more about theatre, Irish history and culture, and the artistic spirit in the two and a half hours I spent watching this play than in the countless classes I've attended here. This is a wildly interpretive and yet heartreakingly simple and true retelling of the bonds between famed Irish playwrights William Butler Yeats, Sean O'Casey, and Lady Gregory, set against the backdrop of the Irish uprisings and the opening of O'Casey's controversial play (another must-read,) The Plough and the Stars.
I cannot recommend this play highly enough. Read it, go and see it, absorb it...I hope you enjoy it as much as I have!

Toibin examines Sean O'Casey's early literary life in context with the historical figures around him- Lady Gregory and W.B. Yeats. Particularly, the consternation surrounding Sean's controversial PLOUGH AND THE STARS and the defence Yeats and Gregory showered on him. A hugely enjoyable play.