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This little interlude is a rumbustious revue-sketch, which, as Philip Hope-Wallace in a pithy notice once acutely observed, ‘is as nippy as a Charlie Chaplin prewar short’. Providing twenty exhilarating minutes of irrational, inexhaustible fun, it offers cornucopean farce, laden with tipsy extravagance; as rollicking as the drunken disintegration which finalises Juno and the Pay cock. The same dehiscent touches light the fuse of devastating slapstick in the shorter play.
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O’Riordan, J. (1984). A Pound on Demand (1934): a Farcical Sketch. In: A Guide to O’Casey’s Plays. Macmillan Studies in Anglo-Irish Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07093-0_10
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