Actor Niall Buggy turns speeches into full-blown storms in Tom Murphy's "A Whistle in the Dark," braying and chest thumping as his character, a crude patriarch called Dada, urges his thuggish sons to inglorious fisticuffs as Irish emigrants in England. As a portrait of ugly brutality that stands in for a disturbing facet of a national psychology, Buggy's outsize performance is thrilling. Read full article >>
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:28PM on October 19, 2012