THE LEARNING CURVE Fall 2008
Art History, Archaeology, Astronomy, History, Literature, Philosophy, Music

Ireland’s Abbey Theatre
Great Performances On Stage and Drama Behind the Scenes

Trace the history of the National Theatre of Ireland from its sputtering start in Yeats’s “Celtic Twilight” through the brilliant but often turbulent period ending in the 1930’s, to its woeful decline in the 40’s and 50’s, and on to its  precarious re-emergence  over the last 50 years. Meet some of the literary, as well as not so literary,  personalities, who played important, if not always helpful, roles in the Theatre’s development: E. Martyn, Augusta Gregory, W.B Yeats, George Moore,  The Fay brothers, A. Horniman, J. M. Synge,  Sean O’Casey, and Lennox Robinson to cite but a few.

When: Mondays, Dec 1 and Dec 8,  1:30-3:30pm
Where: The Windmill Inn, 4250 N. Campbell.
Cost: $45 (2 sessions – reading packet provided)

Instructor:
Robert J. McCue has lectured extensively on Joyce and Yeats since retiring to Tucson. He holds an undergraduate degree from Northeastern University, a Master’s from the University of New Haven and has done post graduate studies at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. He has taught as an adjunct professor at Southern Connecticut University and at Quinnipiac University.  As a life-time avocation, he has read widely on the works of Joyce with emphasis on Ulysses.

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