The Colleen Bawn

From: The Village Voice | Date: October 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Eternally green: Playwright Dion Boucicault gets his Irish up THE COLLEEN BAWN By Dion Boucicault Irish Repertory Theatre 132 West 22nd Street 212.727.2737

Steeped in Irishness, with a brogue as thick as your great-grandma's corset, The Colleen Bawn is nonetheless an American play, premiered in New York in 1860. Though Irish scenes and characters, largely stereotyped, had been seen on English and American stages for decades, Dion Boucicault, comic actor and melodramatist extraordinaire, was a pioneer in making plays that were genuinely of Ireland, steeped in love for its landscape and with a ...

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