W.B. Yeats said about his brooding poetic drama Purgatory, first produced at the Abbey in 1938, 'I have a one-act play in my head, a scene of tragic intensity... I am so afraid of that dream'. In Purgatory, with its harrowing story of an old man killing his son to end a cycle of violence and violation, Yeats suffuses his exploration of historical tradition and cultural identity with searing force and power.
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