Ben Barnes, Plays and Controversies. Abbey Theatre Diaries 2000-2005.(Book review)

Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies | March 22, 2009| | Copyright

Ben Barnes, Plays and Controversies. Abbey Theatre Diaries 2000-2005. Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2008. 459 pages. EUR 35.00 (paperback).

National Theatres are not for the faint-hearted. As institutions they thrive, and often founder, on conflict, if only because they tend to embody a perpetual tension between the claims of tradition and the individual enterprises of imagination. Peter Hall, sometime artistic director of the British National Theatre, subtitled his diaries 'the story of a dramatic battle', a description which this book also summons, given its ...

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