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| Janie Brookshire and Shawn Fagan in Wife to James Whelan. |
Some of the "lost" plays that I've seen over the years I suspect weren't accidentally misplaced but intentionally tossed aside -- because they weren't very good. Manhattan Theatre Club's recent revival of Accent on Youth, for example, was a painful experience.
But I was happy to discover that's not the case with Teresa Deevy's excellent Wife to James Whelan, which truly was lost (the late Irish author's nephew discovered the manuscript in an envelope). The 70-year-old play is a masterful character study about gender and class conflict, and it's just the first Deevy plays in the works at the spunky little Mint Theater Company.
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I agree, Diane. "Wife" is one of the most powerful productions I've seen in a long time. Hooray to Jonathan Bank and the Mint Theatre for bringing it back to life.
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