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Seamus Deane: Derry-born author and poet dies
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The author and poet Seamus Deane has died aged 81.
Deane, an original member of the Field Day Theatre Company from Londonderry, died in hospital on 12 May.
President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins said his death would be an incalculable loss to Irish writing .
His debut novel Reading in the Dark was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won The Irish Times International Fiction Prize and The Irish Literature Prize in 1997.
In a statement, Mr Higgins said Deane was a distinguished poet, novelist and internationally acclaimed university teacher . To Derry he leaves the incomparable legacy of the life, the writing, the concerns, the despair and the hope, that he shared with its people and to which so much of the work would respond, said Mr Higgins.
Award-winning actress Kathy Burke has praised the Lyric Theatre s new lockdown production, Sadie, saying it was so brilliant, she watched it twice.
The play, written by David Ireland for the Lyric, in association with Field Day Theatre Company, was filmed on the Main Stage in February, as part of BBC Arts Lights up theatre campaign for a new Culture in Quarantine season.
Starring Abigail McGibbon in the title role, Sadie was broadcast on BBC Four on March 31 and then on BBC2 NI, the following night. It will also be available to view for 12 months on BBC iPlayer.
Burke, who has won many accolades, including Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival and British Comedy Awards, told her 436,000 Twitter followers that the production was amazing and urged them to give it a watch.
Revenge Against Revenge: Biden’s Revenge Politics and “The Cure at Troy”
WITH JOE BIDEN now established in the White House without the feared retaliation of his predecessor’s rabid and well-armed supporters, it is tempting to imagine that the age of revenge politics is at its close. But those politics remain, tethered as they are to a vengeful form of neoliberalism that Biden helped foster throughout his political career. In their now-subtler form, they threaten to germinate in the years of his administration, and bloom again afterward. A closer look at the new president’s mobilization of Seamus Heaney’s famous poem about forgiveness offers clues to the past, present, and future of revenge politics in America.
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Sadie is a dark drama set in Northern Ireland in 2020. In contravention of lockdown rules sharp-witted cleaner Sadie (Abigail McGibbon) develops an intense, dysfunctional relationship with a much younger man – triggering a psychological showdown with the remnant demons of her past.
A one night stand with the new office temp Joao (Santino Smith) develops into something much more serious when Joao reveals he’s in love with her. Sadie is flattered but with a long history of terrible relationships, she wonders if it’s even possible for her to be happy in love. To answer that question, she calls upon her long dead uncle Red (Patrick Jenkins), her abusive ex-husband Clark (David Pearse) and her new therapist Mairead (Andrea Irvine). Together they help her face some horrifying truths she’s kept hidden for too long.