Plays by Nation - Irish Plays

Terminus

Mark O'Rowe

Nick Hern Books

1 Male 2 Female

A blackly comic vision of Dublin infested with demons ... Three people are ripped from their daily lives and catapulted into a fantastical world of singing serial killers, avenging angels and lovesick demon...

$14.99

Shoot the Crow

Owen McCafferty

Nick Hern Books

This is a sad and hilarious play about a day in the life of four Irish tilers on a building site As they come to the end of the job they've been working on, Ding-Ding and Randolph plan to nick a left-over...

$14.99

Endgame - A Play in One Act

Samuel Beckett

Faber & Faber

3 Male 1 Female

'endgame' is one of Beckett's most famous works, generally considered to be his theatrical masterpiece, as a master and servant fight it out at the end of the world in somebody's decaying head Despite some ...

$12.99

Dublin Carol

Conor McPherson

Nick Hern Books

Present-day Dublin Christmas Eve Undertaker John Plunkett is sharing memories of funerals over the years and dispensing advice to his young assistant But the painful arrival of his estranged grown-up daug...

$14.99

Triptych

Edna O'Brien

Dramatists Play Service

0 Male 3 Female

Three women - a mistress, a wife and a daughter-expose their passions for the same man and confront the ways that love can simultaneously liberate and entrap "... an intriguing and beguiling disquisition...

$13

Bloody Sunday - Scenes from the Saville Enquiry

Richard Norton-Taylor

Oberon

'The Tricycle's latest recreation of a major inquiry is its most devastating yet' ~ The Times 'A necessary triumph' ~ The Independent 'A dark day brilliantly illuminated ... an exceptionally gripping co...

$14.99

The Well of the Saints - A Play

John M Synge

Used Copy

Published Maunsel - Dublin 1912

$70

A Pagan Place - Edna O'Brien

Edna O'Brien

Used Copy

$19.99

Deirdre of the Sorrows - A Play

John M Synge

Used Copy

Published Maunsel - Dublin 1911

$50

The Tinker's Wedding & Riders to the Sea & The Shadow of the Glene

John M Synge

Used Copy

Published Maunsel - Dublin 1911

$40

Someone Who'll Watch Over Me

Frank McGuinness

Faber & Faber

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 pass t...

$12.99

Red Roses for Me

Sean O'Casey

Used Copy

A Play in Four Acts - pub 1944 - with d/j

$18.99

Oak Leaves and Lavender

Sean O'Casey

Used Copy

First Edition - published 1946

$55

The Silver Tassie

Sean O'Casey

Used Copy

First Edition - published 1928

$75

Beauty Queen of Leenane

Martin McDonagh

Methuen

2 Male 2 Female

Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag her manipulative ageing moth...

$15.99

Parker Plays 1 - Spokesong & Catchpenny Twist & Nightshade & Pratt's Fall

Stewart Parker

Methuen

This volume includes four plays ... Spokesong - 'A dazzling play that combines warmth of sentiment with great emotional strength and intellectual playfulness ... a gorgeously rich play' - New York Post C...

$28.99

Exiles

James Joyce

Nick Hern Books

3 Male 4 Female

Joyce's only play, a startlingly modern portrait of a marriage, recently revived at the National Theatre ... Back in Dublin after nine years abroad, Richard and Bertha have to confront two other people ...

$14.99

Making History

Brian Friel

Faber & Faber

The central character of this play is Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who led an Irish and Spanish alliance against the armies of Elizabeth I in an attempt to drive the English out of Ireland The action takes...

$12.99

The Cripple of Inishmaan

Martin McDonagh

Methuen

In 1934, the people of Inishman learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighbouring island to film his documentary Man of Aran. No-one is more excited than Cripple Billy, an unlov...

$15.99

I Knock at the Door

Sean O'Casey adapted by Paul Shyre

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 2 Female

First of the six autobiographical volumes by Sean O'CaseySix actors bring the sad, pithy boyhood of John Casside (O'Casey) into quick and sensitive focus His strong, resigned mother, his impetuous, gropi...

$13