NYTimes.com: "Ms. Hynes, whose Druid Theater production of the 1928 Sean O’Casey play “The Silver Tassie” arrives on Sunday as part of the 2011 Lincoln Center Festival, is hardly alone in feeling the urge to remind people just how bloody the conflict stretching from 1914 to 1918 was. “The war to end all wars,” as Woodrow Wilson optimistically called it, failed woefully in achieving that goal, to the point where the historian Adam Hochschild titled his acclaimed recent book about the period “To End All Wars.”"
Monday, July 25, 2011
World War I Reverberates in ‘Silver Tassie’ and ‘War Horse’
NYTimes.com: "Ms. Hynes, whose Druid Theater production of the 1928 Sean O’Casey play “The Silver Tassie” arrives on Sunday as part of the 2011 Lincoln Center Festival, is hardly alone in feeling the urge to remind people just how bloody the conflict stretching from 1914 to 1918 was. “The war to end all wars,” as Woodrow Wilson optimistically called it, failed woefully in achieving that goal, to the point where the historian Adam Hochschild titled his acclaimed recent book about the period “To End All Wars.”"
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