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Shively), the unseen man, the man within, the conscience, the alter ego.
It really is his play.
Yet for all that, it must be a weirdly lonely part.
All Garboth halves, the whole manreally wants is some tiny demonstration of love from his father, S.B.
Still, some of the productions strongest moments are the plays sketches of its menfolk.
None of them, Gar included, actually know how to talk to one other.
Its a bloody quagmire, a backwater, a dead-end!
And everybody in it goes crazy sooner or later!
Theyre louts, ignorant bloody louts, and youve always known it!
shouts private Gar, almost in tears, after his friends make their uncomfortable exit.
Lizzys accent is almost gone and shes all loud-laughing, bourbon-drinking animation and opinion so colorful!
(Her vulgarity, private Gar shivers.)
Philadelphia, Here I Come!is at the Irish Repertory Theatre through May 5.
