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"Louis D'Alton was one of the most prolific and popular dramatists of his day, his plays premiering at the Abbey Theatre from 1937 until 1958, seven years after his untimely death. In this biography, Ciara O'Farrell analyses all D'Alton's plays, including Lovers' Meeting, They Got What They Wanted, and This Other Eden, judging not only their individual dramatic strengths and weaknesses but also their applicability to Irish mores and social graces." Louis D'Alton and the Abbey Theatre not only recovers an individual life, but also realises the first comprehensive examination of Irish fit-up drama. As well as being a dramatist, Louis D'Alton was also an actor and manager of a fit-up company. In this book the author explores D'Alton's career against the social and cultural background of touring companies, reconstructing a significant social phenomenon of the 1930s and 1940s, and re-examining a glorious episode in Irish cultural history.
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Brenda Wilson
reviewed Louis Dalton and the Abbey Theatre on April 08, 2015 Louis Dalton and the Abbey Theatre
These are a very cordial 3 stars - I liked this book a lot but the fact of it being a near verbatim memoir meant that it didn't have a great arc or drive or anything that made it a fantastic book. Furthermore, the life of a regular lady and guy over the course of 20th century Ireland is not a subject that appeals to every reader (but it does to me!).
I thought it was great, without trying to do too much or encylopedically covering everything or really universalizing anything at all... Roddy Doyle sat down with his parents and let them say what they want and then wrote it down, and it works. Their respective happy, fairly simple childhoods, their early adulthoods (and their awesome first meeting -- Ita thought Roddy was too drunk and wasn't interested at all, but he proved himself the next week), and their marriage, home-buying, the births of their children, tragedies and joys, and family ties that remained important throughout the decades.
It's not like they have the perfect love story, or incredibly edifying lives, or were fantastic in any way, but they were smart and nice and had fun, and that's just how it should be, and it was really nice to read about that. Way to be a good kid, Roddy
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