Red Roses and Petrol
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 30, 2000
Closed Dec 10, 2000
Opened Oct 30, 2000
Closed Dec 10, 2000
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Neal Jones directs Joseph O'Connor's Red Roses and Petrol at the Irish Arts Center. Set in modern-day Ireland, the drama centers around Moya, who is preparing for the funeral mass of her husband, Enda. Her children are returning from England and America for the somber occasion. But as the ghosts of the Doyle family begin to materialize, the consequences are both profoundly disturbing and memorably comic. The cast for this New York premiere includes Adene O'Kelly and Dara Coleman, with a unique appearance by Frank McCourt.
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There's a stirring image in the first act of Joseph O'Connor's Red Roses and Petrol.
Moya Doyle discovers videotapes that her just-deceased husband, Enda, has left behind and inserts one into the VCR. Enda, who was a university teacher, begins talking into the darkened room and, as he does, Moya--silhouetted in front of the screen--caresses her husband's televised face. The stunning moment is made even more so by the gesture's symbolizing the couple's relationship as slowly revealed over the course of the play: a woman devoted to a man whom she could never entirely reach.
This brief sequence is also notable for being a quiet one in an otherwise noisy comedy drama. In addition to Moya, [...]