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Irish Plays
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The Lonesome West
3 Male, 1 Female
Valene and Coleman, two brothers living alone in their father's house after his recent death, find it impossible to exist without the most massive and violent disputes over the most mundane and innocent…
The Morning After Optimism
2 Male, 2 Female
The Morning After Optimism introduces fairytale characters with consciously artificial language and explores the relationship between illusion and freedom “A play of a dream world…profoundly…
The New Electric Ballroom
1 Male, 3 Female
A dark fable of the emotionally stultifying effects of small-town life ... Three sisters in a remote fishing village, trapped in the years that have passed since their halcyon days at The New Electric…
The Passion of Jerome
An ordinary man is forced to confront both his own demons and the manifestation of the supernatural beyond his comprehension and control Jeremy Furlong is a successful businessman, whose life has been…
The Playboy of the Western World
This is one of the New Mermaid series which offers modern spelling & fully-annotated editions of important English plays. Each volume includes a critical introduction, biography of the author,…
The Playboy of the Western World and Two Other Irish Plays
Riots greeted the first performance of The Playboy of the Western World at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre on 26 January 1907. Eggs, potatoes and even a slice of fruit cake were hurled at the actors during subsequent…
The Plough and the Stars
9 Male, 6 Female
Set in 1915-16, this is a tragic satire about the Irish Citizen Army for whom the Plough and the Stars are a symbol of their futile patriotism. The Easter rebellion brings the realisation that there is…
The Power of Darkness
Paul King, an Irish landowner, is dying; his wife is half his age. He has not allowed his wealth to spread ease or comfort. When he dies, his handsome young workman Paul is urged by a cunning mother to…
The Sanctuary Lamp
5 Male, 2 Female
The Sanctuary Lamp is set in a church where three lost souls spend the night ... “Murphy, in the best traditions of Bunuel, takes a hallowed institution and populates it with social misfits who desecrate…
