e/The Sanctuary Lamp

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has gloss	eng: The Sanctuary Lamp is a play by Irish playwright Tom Murphy written in 1975 but revised for subsequent productions. When premiered at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin its anti-Catholic stance caused enormous controversy with its author denounced in pulpits up and down the country. Defenders included the then President of Ireland who argued that the play was, along with The Playboy of the Western World and Juno and the Paycock, one of the greatest of Irish dramas. The trauma of the plays rejection caused Murphy to withdraw from playwriting altogether for a few years. When it was revived in a substantially rewritten version at the Abbey in 2001 and then at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester in 2003 it was re-evaluated as one of Murphys best plays and was enormously successful with audiences. A production of The Sanctuary Lamp is being shown at the Arcola Theatre in Dalston, London from 10 March - 03 April 2010 and is being directed by Tom Murphy himself.
lexicalization	eng: The Sanctuary Lamp
instance of	c/Irish plays