The opening weekend includes large-scale productions such as the National Ballet of China's The Peony Pavilion and Mokwha Repertory Company's version of Shakespeare's Tempest.

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Mr Schickel is sympathetic to Kazan's ideals and the political engagement of The Group Theatre, the left-wing repertory company which introduced the Stanislavsky method to America and where Kazan started out.

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It makes sense that the Irish Repertory Theatre should have taken an interest in a musical set in Innisfree, and Charlotte Moore, the company's artistic director, has contrived with her usual deftness to paper over the show's flaws and bring its considerable charms to the fore.

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