December 2011
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Keep Talking To Keep From Speaking Out
Why do we tell stories - really?
James X, a one-man show from Ireland that I saw last week in a downtown Manhattan theatre space, appears to be a story about cruelty, suffering and shame - and to whom shame properly belongs. It’s an indictment of the Irish social welfare and juvenile justice system - of a state and a church and a society that collaborated to perpetrate terrible cruelties on...
