Plays of the Irish Renaissance

Overview

The program has three segments: (1) "Plays of the Irish Renaissance" (scenes from works by Irish playwrights), (2) "The Era of Wonderful Nonsense" (documentary on crazy ways of making a living in the 1920s), and (3) "On the Bowery" (showing of an excerpt from a 1956 film dealing with the life of down-and-outs in a downtown area of New York).