...The Cripple of Inishmaan is playing in New York and a review can be found here. It opened Sunday at the Linda Gross Theater and features Cripple Billy who the reviewer notes is not about to say "God bless us, everyone." The 1997 comedy is written by Martin McDonagh.
With his twisted body and wheezing cough, Billy is the pride and woe of the women who raised him, Kate and Eileen (Ms. Mullen and Dearbhla Molloy, both wonderful), who run a tidy but understocked country store. (Francis O’Connor’s set is a melancholy blend of barrenness and hominess.) Billy’s restlessness disturbs his protective guardians. “Stop thinking aloud,” Eileen tells him. “Did you ever see the Virgin Mary going thinking aloud?”
The "rural boredom" leads to lives of quiet desperation among other inhabitants: one who talks to stones, another who tosses eggs at folks. But central to the play is the rise and fall, so to speak, of Cripple Billy who has dreams of Hollywood and fame.
Below is a clip of one professor's take on the play.
You didn't think a Christmas would go by without blogging about Tiny Tim, did you?
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Merry Christmas Ruth!
Merry Christmas to you too, Greg!
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