Theater Review: ‘The Pigeon in the Taj Mahal’

Playwright Laoisa Sexton’s “The Pigeon in the Taj Mahal” offers a compelling contrast between modern pleasure seeking and old-fashioned kindliness.
Theater Review: ‘The Pigeon in the Taj Mahal’
(L –R) Zoë Watkins, John Keating, and Laoisa Sexton star in “The Pigeon in the Taj Mahal,” at the Irish Repertory Theatre. Carol Rosegg
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NEW YORK—The pigeon of the title is Eddy the Pigeon, an odd man (John Keating) who lives quietly in an isolated spot in Ireland in a trailer, ostentatiously named the Taj Mahal.

Content to live alone, he is, however, not entirely displeased to find an attractive young woman passed out in his garden. She wears a tutu and her head is adorned with a tiara. She seems like a fairy queen!

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Diana Barth
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Diana Barth writes for various theatrical publications and for New Millennium. She may be contacted at [email protected]
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