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Article: Aristocrats. (Manhattan Theater Club, New York)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- July 3, 1989
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Brian Friel's Aristocrats, at the Manhattan Theater Club, also deals with family conflict, but here it is a metaphor for Ireland. A decaying Irish Catholic family, who have grown up in a gaunt Georgian house on the top of the hill, meet for a daughter's wedding. Present is a sociologist from Chicago who has come to study the Irish Catholic gentry. The children have all married beneath them; each has a terrible secret -- and all the while ...
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