![]() ![]() The main difference this year is that Julia’s weak spells are more pronounced, and Gretta is held in unusual reveries.įor as long as Nelson’s adaptation (Shaun Davey did the music, and both conceived the lyrics) sticks to the pleasures of family and friends entertaining each other, or even in the way loved ones will recall an intimate song, the music seems natural. ![]() ![]() Gabriel will rise at dinner’s end to make his annual florid speech. They reminisce, demur shyly from compliments and share fluttering covert anxieties and brief bitter memories. Since it’s 1904, those present do what families everywhere did at the time: They gather around the parlor piano for song and dance. Malins and the more recent arrivals, the testy nationalist Miss Molly Ivors and the opera singer Bartell D’Arcy. Browne, a dear friend even if he is Protestant the dependably inebriated Freddy Malins and his long-suffering mother, Mrs. Their regulars include nephew Gabriel Conroy and his wife Gretta Mr. The setting is the Morkans’ annual Christmas dinner party at their upstairs rooms in Dublin, an event Aunt Julia and Aunt Kate, and their niece Mary Jane, have hosted in sumptuous style for 30 years. ![]()
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