A play set in Ireland in the early 1820s (just before the potato famine), set in Irish Gaelic but spoken in English, doesn't sound very interesting or relevant to our lives today. But this turned out to be a marvelous work, entertaining and thought-provoking, entwining conflicts of language, nationalism, culture and thought in ways that were both true to the circumstance of the setting and rang warnings for today. A great cast, well directed, the only flaw was one of the most hideous and ill-digested sets that I've ever seen on the professional stage. Oh well, you can't have everything!
Well worth crawling off my sickbed for. :)
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