SEBASTIAN BARRY

ISBN: 9780413698902

页数: 192

定价: 18.00

内容简介

Grace and Disgrace
In Sebastian Barry s luminous plays??? grace and disgrace are
not opposites but constant companions. His people are??? in the
eyes of their time??? disgraceful. The central characters of these
plays are??? respectively??? a desperado??? an enforcer for a
discredited regime and an exotic dancer. They are misfits???
anomalies??? outlanders. Yet each is also marked by an amazing
grace. They are??? in the mundane meaning of grace??? possessed
in their different ways of extraordinary emotional elegance.
And they are also??? in the religious sense??? full of grace??? touched
by some kind of inexplicable tenderness that rescues them
from oblivion and grants them an equivocal but unmistakable
blessing.
Sebastian Barry s plays are about history??? but not in any
very obvious or familiar sense. Much of Irish theatre since
Scan O Casey has had a direct relationship to public events.
Either directly or indirectly virtually all of the major plays
written in Ireland this century have reflected on the large-
scale public conflicts that have shaped individual destinies on
the island. First the conflict between Britishness and Irishness
(or Protestantism and Catholicism) and then the conflict
between tradition and modernity in independent Ireland
echoed through the theatre. The plays themselves tended???
inevitably??? to be full of the resounding clash of epic forces. We
came to expect an especially turbulent kind of drama in
Ireland??? and we were not disappointed.
Sebastian Barry s extraordinary theatrical history of
anomalous people??? sustained now over five
Boys and Praters of ~;. ~. ??? . plays (Boss Grad \"s
.jShe ??? oum puonsneo in 1991 as well a~v
the three collected here) marks a striking departure from these
precedents. By the late 1980s??? when he found his voice in the
theatre??? the old conflicts were losing their grip. On the one
hand??? the contest between Britishness and Irishness had run
~tts~f intoTthe???barren and.