National Theatre

John McAuliffe’ s National Theatre dramatizes and values the performances of daily life, without ignoring those “ noises off” with the power to disrupt our chosen lives. Subtle, revelatory, sensitively responding to a wide range of subjects (and to the lyric poetic tradition he inherits), the poems identify those moments of insight and vision which shape the lighting and staging of our imaginative lives. Here the aesthetics of the drama bear the exertion of gentle, often ironic, moral press...