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Terminus : The Abbey Theatre at ArtsEmerson (Boston)

Terminus : The Abbey Theatre at ArtsEmerson (Boston)

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L.to R. Catherine Walker, Declan Conlon, Olwen Fouéré in Terminus

The Abbey Theatre’s production of Mark O’Rowe’s extraordinary Terminus is the final work of ArtsEmerson’s mini-Irish festival. (The other two were Kathrine Bates’ The Color of Rose and Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan.) Terminus is formally constructed: three characters – two women and a man – speaking monologues in verse, much of it rhyming. It observes the unities of time, place, and action: the tale they tell transpired over a single night, they remain in one place throughout, and the action is simply to recount.

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