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Brian Friel's first masterpiece, Philadelphia, Here I Come!, examined the plight of the
emigrant. In The Loves of Cass McGuire he reverses his theme: for more
than fifty years Cass McGuire has worked a block from Skid Row, among deadbeats and
washouts — people who live in the past.
This bawdy, vital, compassionate play deals with her return to Ireland and
her genteel family's rejection of her.
It follows her lonely struggle to re-discover the home she's dreamt of all
her life and her eventual surrender to the makebelieve of Eden House.
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