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âAnother Happy day!â declaims Winnie, the relentlessly optimistic heroine of Samuel Beckettâs 1961 play, which celebrates the curious cognitive dissonance that the human spirit is capable of. Buried up to her waist, then her neck, in rubble, the physical residue of a world in decay, Winnie is a model of resilience for these times of isolation and uncertainty. With the unpredictable responses of her unreliable interlocutor Willie, who lies feet first and for the most part unseen in a cave behind her, she âprattles alongâ, certain that âsomething of this is being heardâ, that the âcertain daysâ will continue âto go quite by.â
Bloom time If you dream of filling your home with your own cut flowers, gifting website and flower farm Bell Meadow has introduced a flower seed collection that will help you realise that ambition. It contains 11 seed packets (each with detailed growing instructions on a card to keep for reference) including sweet peas, cornflowers and marigolds. These are all suitable for beginner growers and will attract pollinators to your garden. Bell Meadow’s Maria Ryan suggests starting the sweet peas now indoors if you want earlier blooms; the others can be started in early spring inside, or planted directly into the garden or a raised bed later in spring, once the danger of frost has passed.
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âThe Approachâ Review: Three Women and the Men Who Define Them
Mark OâRoweâs intricate, beautifully acted play begs for debate. To start: Why donât its protagonists have full lives of their own?
Derbhle Crotty, left, and Cathy Belton in “The Approach.’Credit.via St. Ann’s Warehouse
Published Jan. 23, 2021Updated Jan. 24, 2021
For an hour Iâd sat riveted to my laptop, watching the writer-director Mark OâRoweâs âThe Approachâ performed live from Dublin. Then the superb actors took their bows, and I was seized by an impossible urge that hadnât beckoned me this whole pandemic.