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Author Sebastian Barry & Brendan Behan & Martin McDonagh & Tom Murphy & Christina Reid & Patrick Lonergan
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The Methuen Drama Anthology of Irish Plays - The Hostage & Bailegangaire & Belle of the Belfast City & Steward of Christendom & Cripple of Inishmaan
This Anthology of Irish Plays brings together five major works from the Irish dramatic canon of the last sixty years in one outstanding collection ... Behan’s The Hostage, depicting the capture and…
Murphy Plays 4 - A Whistle in the Dark & A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocery Assistant & On the Outside On the Inside
“The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today” ~ Brian Friel
Murphy Plays 1 - Famine & The Patriot Game & The Blue Macuschla
The first collection of plays by “The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today” Brian Friel Famine portrays the Great Hunger of…
Bailegangaire
” ... as complex and haunting as one of Yeats’ later poems ... A senile bedridden old woman rehearses over and over again an epic tale of a village laughing match ... Meanwhile her two granddaughters…
Too Late for Logic
Christopher has sacrificed much to haul himself up the academic ladder and as the play opens we learn he has now been asked to deliver an important key lecture on Schopenhauer But with his career at make-or-break…
She Stoops to Folly
Modelled on Oliver Goldsmith’s classic novel The Vicar of Wakefield, Murphy builds a comedy peopled with thieves, pimps, bawds, lechers and imposters who will prey on innocence unless God - or the…
The House
7 Male, 4 Female
Summertime, and the emigrant workers, dressed in new suits and dreams, are returning home for the annual sojourn. They are young, vigorous, they have money in their pockets But they do not belong here…
The Wake
6 Male, 5 Female
The Wake recounts the story of a woman, returning from the USA to her home town in Ireland. As her family learn of her years as a prostitute, she learns their attitudes and Irish society in general A homecoming…
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…
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 Gigli Concert
2 Male, 1 Female
“One of the greatest Irish plays of the century” ~ Irish Times “The language of the play is on a sort of inspired bender. It surfeits on its own potency. om Murphy’s gift - here…
Famine
Large Mixed Cast Male, 3 Female
Famine portrays the Great Hunger of the Irish in 1840s, with fresh pathos and insight “The macabre business of blight and death, of wakes and murder, of poisoned love and lost hope, and the scandal…
