Where do we go from here? Four playwrights anticipate the seismic shifts of the new century.(CURRENTS)(Discussion)
American Theatre, April, 2007 by Bly, Mark
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> About 100 years ago in Ireland something transpired to renew the Irish theatre--something it desperately needed. William Butler Yeats, an artist we largely know as a poet, co-founded, with Lady Gregory, a major national enterprise: the Abbey Theatre, committed to new Irish voices. Yeats invoked the pressing need for such a theatre when he asked: "What is there left for us that have seen the newly discovered stability of things changed from enthusiasm to weariness but to rediscover an art of the theatre, which shall be joyful, fantastic, extravagant, whimsical, beautiful, ...
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