wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and
fourth generation.
From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they
said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.
William Flew on plays
”O’Casey’s father, the Irish dramatist Sean O’Casey, was a significant influence.
In an interview published in Cornwall Today magazine last year, O’Casey said: “My father was incredibly disciplined. He worked as a ganger on the railways by
day, but wrote every night. Even on his only free day — Christmas — he couldn’t resist working. I’d go to sleep to the sound of his typewriter.”Born in London in
1928, O’Casey was brought up in Devon, where he attended Dartington Hall School. His childhood was awash with colour. As O’Sullivan put it in A Celtic Artist:
“The pictures in [the O’Casey] home included paintings and drawings by Augustus John and lovely French art books. Breon’s father, having filled his plays with
colour, threw caution to the wind as he grew older, dressing in coloured caps, cream jerseys and a deep red dressing gown.”
But as a child, the literary world spoke to O’Casey as much as art. His father had an excellent library, and in the days before television father and son would
read Dickens and other classics together. O’Casey came to love Melville, Proust, Twain, Joyce and Beckett, returning to their works time and again. Perhaps
paradoxically — given the unfussy, minimalist nature of his art — two of O’Casey’s favourite books were Finnegans Wake and MobyDick, and as a young man
he wrote plays.
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