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Euripides Helen
Seven years have passed since the end of the Trojan War and Menelaus, King of Sparta and husband to Helen, is making his slow and painful way home When his ship is wrecked on the coast of Egypt he stumbles…
The Dazzling Dark - New Irish Plays - Portia Coughlan & Picture of Paradise & Good Evening Mr Collins & Danti-Dan
A collection of four plays by young Irish playwrights, including Marina Carr, who wrote “The Mai”, and Jimmy Murphy, author of “Brothers of the Brush”.
Frank McGuinness - Plays One - The Factory Girls & Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme & Innocence & Carthaginians & Baglady
This first collection by Frank McGuinness contains plays from the 1980s, including his major work of that decade, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, a powerful and profoundly moving…
Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme
‘This powerful and subtle play . . . follows the experience of eight men who volunteer to serve in the 36th (Ulster) Division at the beginning of the First World War. It reaches a climax at the start…
Dancing at Lughnasa - Screenplay
A screen adaptation of a Brian Friel stage play. Set in a house just outside the Irish village of Ballybeg, it depicts two days in the life of the five Mundy sisters, their brother Jack, who is a missionary…
There Came a Gypsy Riding
The McKenna family gathers at their remote west of Ireland holiday home to mark the twenty-first birthday of their late son Gene Cousin Bridget appears along the causeway, inviting herself for birthday…
Hecuba
“Children, lead this old woman outside A slave like the rest of you, She once was your queen Troy has fallen to the Greeks, and Hecuba, its beloved queen, is widowed and enslaved She mourns her great…
Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me
There was once an Englishman, an Irishman and an American - locked up together in a cell in the Middle East. As victims of political action, powerless to initiate change, what can they do, how do they…
Electra
This classic of Greek tragedy revolves around Electra and her brother Orestes, who together take revenge on their mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus, for the murder of their father Agamemnon
Mutabilitie
Set in 16th-century Ireland, this mystical play explores England and Ireland and the background to colonial rule. Its characters include Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare, and it is grounded in Shakespeare’s…
A Doll’s House
The text of Ibsen’s play, written in 1879 and translated into English by the playwright, Frank McGuinness. Nora confronts her husband, Torvald, with her own brutal realization that by marrying she…
A Doll’s House
4 Male, 4 Female
Nora Helmer is a vibrant young housewife who nonetheless suffers from a crippling dependency on her husband of eight years. He, Torvald, has always done the thinking for the both of…
