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| | Royal National Theatre's "Disappointing" Cripple of Inishmaan |
 | | On Inishmaan there is, of course, tremendous excitement: Hollywood has arrived on the doorstep and some of the islanders - particularly Helen (Aisling O'Sullivan), a wild teenage girl - cherish the dream of appearing in the film. |
 | | The setting of the play is Inishmaan, the middle and, until recently, most inaccessible of the three Aran Islands, and the year is 1934, when American film-maker Robert Flaherty shot his now legendary film 'Man of Aran' on Inishmore. |
 | | His direction of The Cripple of Inishmaan, however, is leaden-footed, and he commits what I was always taught was the cardinal sin of placing his actors and actresses in static tableaux, where they simply address each other. |
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