(1)
Dueling Critics duke it out over 'The Shadow of a Gunman'
Produced by Eight Forty-Eight | Sep. 30, 2011
Cases of mistaken identity can be awkward, funny—even tragic. Sean O’Casey’s play The Shadow of a Gunman plays the scenario out in all three directions. The play is being staged by the Seanachai Theatre Company at the Irish American Heritage Center. Set in the tenements of Dublin in the 1920s, the plot involves a middling poet mistaken for a calculating gunman. But does the play successfully marry comedy and tragedy? And can a modern staging capture the political tension of revolutionary Ireland? Eight Forty-Eight's Dueling Critics Jonathan Abarbanel and Kelly Kleiman joined host Alison Cuddy with their takes.
The Shadow of a Gunman runs through October 23 at the Irish American Heritage Center.
Like WBEZ on Facebook
Now Playing on WBEZ 91.5
POPULAR STORIES
- $7.3 million OKed for downtown ‘bus rapid transit’
- Board votes unanimously to close, restaff schools
- East Germany and Krypton Come to Chicago
- Report: McCarthy knew of NYPD Muslim spy program in NJ
- Video: White Mystery performs Take A Walk on Sound Opinions
- Chicago names schools to be closed, phased out
- CPS let building go to pot before ‘turnaround’?
- Morning News Update: Monday Jan. 7
- $7.3 million OKed for downtown ‘bus rapid transit’
- Announcing my duet with the reanimated corpse of Osama bin Laden
- Chicago wraps up the first set of meetings to map out the 2012 cultural plan
- After bringing youth to gang’s turf, cops won’t face charges
- Album review: Lana Del Rey, ‘Born to Die’ (Interscope)
- Board votes unanimously to close, restaff schools
- Critics slam Illinois lottery ticket sales
- Did CPS let building go to pot before ‘turnaround’?
- Dorothy Brown and Rick Munoz fling insults in Cook County Clerk of Court debate
- $7.3 million OKed for downtown ‘bus rapid transit’
- Jacques Brownson, architect of Daley Center and 55 E. Jackson building dies at 88
- Lost on the Dan Ryan
- Album reviews: Sleigh Bells and Cloud Nothings
- An interview with Steve Edwards
- Baby boomers most at-risk for hepatitis C as deaths rise
- Board votes unanimously to close, restaff schools
WBEZ Twitter Feed
-
Permit needed for South Side gun range http://t.co/cWaMSdXG15 hours 39 min ago
Comments
The acting was extraordinary and truthful in its humor and pain. While the words in a play are usually considered paramount, I felt that these performers used their bodies to project their emotions so perfectly that the words were almost unnecessary. One could've been watching a ballet. Everyone concerned with this play have every reason to be proud and satisfied with their role in bringing it to life.