Lady Gregory’s legacy
Having recently put on a production that was all about Lady Augusta Gregory, we take note when an article in the Guardian discusses major troubles at one of her enduring legacies, the Abbey Theatre. Many of us saw the recent touring version of The Playboy of the Western World. It seems somebody at the Abbey forgot to account for the costs of taking that show on the road (!), and their management structure “has not changed since Yeats’s day.”
This article says, “Just when it looked as though things could not get worse,” and goes on to mention another big problem, its current, expensive West-End failure. But things can always get worse, as we are reminded in today’s coverage in the BBC of the bad artistry at this year’s Avignon arts festival: “‘You think you’ve reached the last point in mediocrity, pretentiousness and confusion. But no. There is always something worse,’ said Le Figaro’s drama critic.”
Posted by Kevin Ashworth at July 22, 2005 11:20 AM
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