Word: donaghreagh
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...Ulster village of Donaghreagh in some sweet pre-Hitlerian period, the plot poses the daughter of a greengrocer with the question of choosing between a young Presbyterian minister and a would-be competitor of her father...
Ervine wrote his play three years ago and has been waiting ever since to find the moment for Whitford Kane to take the lead. The wait has been worth while. As Donaghreagh's leading grocer, philosopher, and friend, Mr. Kane is little short of ideal. Then there is Hiram Sherman, portly and bouncing, who raises his pleasant voice all through the evening as the town's new minister. It would almost seem that Ervine wrote the part for him also. The rest of the cast, Helen Trenholme as Agnes Boyd, William Post, Jr. as John Haslett, Eda Heinemann and Grace...
...built on the serenity of Ulster life, particularly the life of three years back when the bottom had not fallen out of Europe. And Ervine has to make up for this deficiency by characterizations which are skilfully executed, and problems which have far more universality than the limits of Donaghreagh...
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