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Saturday, February 08, 2025
Special post--Sean O'Casey--Juno and the Paycock.
https://archive.org/details/junopaycockbysea0000sean/page/10/mode/2up?view=theater
I've only ever seen another Sean O'Casey play,when I was ushering at Annenberg Center and assistant house managering, in order to learn how to write plays.
Burmese are often called the Irish of the East.
I can understand why.
I can't imagine how my favorite literature mentor taught this play to his BA Hons class. And I don't know how my brother 7 years older than I, was in this honors class while I was in Ecos.
He did mention Juno and the Paycock to me,but I had no idea what it was about, and I only thought it's a mispronunciation of "peacock."
I know they read Pygmalion--but that only has class and language in it, not politics.
kmk
2-8-2025
Invitation to eavesdrop on my "beautiful mind." This story Beast won a prize at the Himal Southasia Inaugural Fiction Fest in 2023.
Big thank you to everyone at Himal, especially Chief Editor Roman Gautam and Marlon Ariyasinghe who did all the liaison, and introduced me o...
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Directed by Miloš Forman Screenplay by Peter Shaffer Based on Amadeus by Peter Shaffer Mozart and Salieri by Alexander Pus...
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https://www.ecoticias.com/en/traffic-lights-fourth-color/10086/