Irish Theater in America: Essays on Irish Theatrical Diaspora

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2 0 5  Index Abbey Theatre: American tours by, xiii, xv, 31–32; architectural design of, 156; Bentley on, 103; Dancing at Lughnasa (Friel) by, 147, 148, 156, 160–61; Faith Healer (Friel) by, 138, 144; guarantee fund benefit matinees, 93–102, 188n. 4; “helpers” of, xviii, 94, 95–98, 100; letters to Gregory, 99–100; The Playboy of the Western World (Synge) by, 65; The Pot of Broth (Gregory and Yeats) by, 93–94; private business and, 160, 161 Abie’s Irish Rose (Nichols), 181–82n. 24 Absentee, The (Edgeworth), 180n. 1 abstinence, 59 Achurch, Janet, 84, 85 Ackroyd, Peter, 113 actors, 84, 140–41, 145–46 Adelaide Advertiser (newspaper), 92 advertisements, job, 67 Advise and Consent (Drury), 110, 190n. 21 Africa, 149, 153–54 African Americans, 125, 129 Akalaitis, JoAnne, 118, 119 alcohol, 57 Aldis, Arthur, 97 Alfred, William, 30–31, 33, 34, 182n. 29 Allgood, Sarah, 91 All That Fall (Beckett), 189n. 8 “Amazing Grace” (song), 125, 131 American audiences: Beckett and, 115; “Big Nite Out-ers,” 164, 165; Boucicault on, 77; Carr and, xi, xiv, xv, 167–68, 174–75; concept of the Irish play for, 164, 173–74, 175–76; Dancing at Lughnasa (Friel) and, 148, 159–62, 165, 166, 175–76; expectations of, xvi; Faith Healer (Friel) and, xi, xix, 138, 141–46, 147; Friel and, xiv–xv, 166; The Great Hunger (MacIntyre) and, xv; Harrigan ’s plays and, 11; The Importance of Being Oscar (Mac Liammóir) and, xviii, 107–12, 113; Irish American theater companies and, 42–43, 45, 48, 49–50; McDonagh’s plays and, 167, 171–72; Tom Murphy and, xi, 52, 174–75; Linda Murray on, 48–49; nostalgia and, 39–40, 42–43, 45, 48; Ciarán O’Reilly on, 45; The Playboy of the Western World (Synge) and, 31–32; playwright name recognition by, 166–68; reasons for attending plays, 169–70; The Shaughraun (Boucicault) and, 55; socialites in, 164, 166; Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (McGuinness) and, xviii–xix, 125, 171; successful plays and, 169–73, 174; Synge and, xii; “Theater Goers,” 164–65, 166; traditional, 42–43, 50–52; types of, xv–xvi, 164–66; The Weir (McPherson) and, 173. See also Irish Americans; New York theater 206 | i n d e x American Committee of the Gaelic League of Ireland, 31 American culture, 147 American Irish drama. See Irish American drama American musicals, xvii American reception. See American audiences American Repertory Theater, 118 Americans, stereotypes of, 126–27, 135 Anderson, Terry, 124 Anglo-American audiences. See American audiences Anglo-Irish audiences, 62 Annie Dunne (Barry), 172 anti-Irish prejudice, 56 Apes and Angels: The Irishman in Victorian Caricature (Curtis), 71 Apollo in New York (Boucicault), 68 “Appeal for Art in Dublin” (Gregory), 98 Arabs, 125, 128–29, 131, 132, 135–36 Argus (newspaper), 80 Ariel (Carr), 182n. 17 Arrah-na-Brogue (Harrigan), 29 Arrah-na-Pogue (Boucicault), 70–71; popularity of, 66; romantic nationalism of, 27, 28–29; silent film of, 77; “Wearing of the Green” song, 59, 70 Arthur, Helen, 182–83n. 36 arts, xvii–xviii, 90, 95, 98–99 As You Like It (Shakespeare), 86 Asmus, Walter, 118 Attenborough, Richard, 128 audiences: Anglo-Irish, 62; Celtic culture and, 47; concept of the Irish play and, 164; diasporic, 47; international (see American audiences; international performances); typology of, xv–xvi, 164–66. See also American audiences; Irish audiences auld sod myth, 39, 40, 50 Australia: 1890’s crash in, 85; actors in, 84; Bernhardt in, 85, 187n. 21; Boucicault in, 82–83, 84–85, 186– 87n. 16; nationalism in, 82; George Tallis in, 78–81, 84–92; theater tours in, 81–82, 86, 92; theatrical culture in, xviii, 78, 92; Williamson, Garner, and Musgrove in, 81–82, 84–87 authors. See playwrights Autobiography (Jefferson), 28 “Babies on Our Block” (Harrigan and Braham ), 9–10 Bailegangaire (Murphy), 167 Bailey, William, 94 Baker, Benjamin, 26–27 Baker, George Pierce, 96, 188n. 13 “Ballad of Reading Gaol, The” (Wilde), 105, 106 Balzac, Honoré de, 9 “Bannerman” (Friel), 139–40 Barcus, James S., 31 Barker, Harley Granville, xii Barnes, Clive, 142, 143 Barnes, Michael, 139 Barnum, P. T., 13 Barrett, Wilson, 86 Barrie, James, 83 Barry, Philip, 34 Barry, Sebastian, 167, 172–73 Bates, Terry John, 150 Beauty Queen of Leenane, The (McDonagh ), 34, 167, 171–72 Beckett, Samuel, 104, 114–23; All That Fall, 189n. 8; on Americans, 115, 122; Catastrophe, 123; Centenary of 2006, 114–15, 123; Film, 119–21; The Lost Ones, 119...