{"id":237,"date":"2007-01-25T19:34:53","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T01:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atomon.org\/?p=237"},"modified":"2007-01-25T19:34:53","modified_gmt":"2007-01-26T01:34:53","slug":"letters-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Letters Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

My brother Niall is in another play, and according to this person<\/a> it’s highly recommended. The play is “Letters Home: Voices of American Troops From the Battlefields of Iraq<\/a>” and I’ll quote:<\/p>\n

… there can only be highest praise for the extraordinary act of empathy and transformation of [the] ensemble — a “platoon” of 10 young, richly expressive actors who so deftly conjure the souls of those whose letters they clearly have made their own. The roll call — medals to all — is as follows: Pasquale Di Diana, Kevin Kingston, Niall McGinty, [and seven people I don’t know who come after McGinty alphabetically].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Before this he was in “The General From America<\/a>“, and before that, “Hecuba”. Here’s a pic<\/a> of him dead with Marsha Mason. I don’t know who she is either, but my parents do. Hecuba provided what is still my favorite review of any of his performances, from the same reviewer as above:<\/p>\n

Also unforgettable is the play’s opening speech by McGinty, who brings a touching boy-man androgyny to Polyxena’s young brother Polydorus, and who speaks with a great eloquence heightened by his rail-thin ghostliness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Touching boy-man androgyny. I can’t really add to that.<\/p>\n

Anyway, if you’re in Chicago, check him out, and if you have any spare weekend airline tickets to Chicago sitting around, hook me up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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