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New plays from the Abbey Theatre / edited and with an introduction by Christopher Fitz-Simon and Sanford Sternlicht.
Van Pelt Library PR8869 .N48 1996 v. 1 v. 2 v.3
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)
- Irish studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--Irish authors.
- English drama.
- English drama--20th century.
- Ireland--Drama.
- Ireland.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1996-2003.
- Summary:
- These selected plays illustrate the extraordinary variety of Irish drama today as well as the brilliance of Irish playwrights, both seasoned veterans and those beginning to build reputations on the stages of the world's premier national theater, The Abbey.
- The first play, Sour Grapes by award-winning playwright Michael Harding, explores the taboos of seminary life including pedophilia and homosexuality. Thomas Kilroy's The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde tells the historical drama of the marriage of Constance to Oscar Wilde and recounts the tragedy that was her marriage and life. Interlocking lives of a varied group of eight morally adrift young Dublin women and men, Alex Johnston's dramatic comedy Melonfarmer illuminates the difficulty of human communication in a fast-paced urban society. By the Bog of Cats by Marina Carr completes the volume in an intense, profound, and poetic tragedy of brutal Irish rural-Midlands life in which money and land outweigh all other values.
- Contents:
- [v. 1] 1993-1995 : Hubert Murray's widow / Michael Harding. Sheep's milk on the boil / Tom Mac Intyre. Asylum! Asylum! / Donal O'Kelly. The duty master / Neil Donnelly. A little like paradise / Niall Williams
- v. 2. 1996-1998 : Sour grapes / Michael Harding. The secret fall of Constance Wilde / Thomas Kilroy. Melonfarmer / Alex Johnston. By the Bog of Cats / Marina Carr
- v. 3. 1999-2001 : Love in the title / Hugh Leonard. Dolly West's kitchen / Frank McGuinness. The muesli belt / Jimmy Murphy.
- Notes:
- Vols. 2-3 edited by Judy Friel and Sanford Sternlicht.
- ISBN:
- 0815626991
- 0815603452
- 0815629281
- 0815607237
- 0815629672
- 0815629877
- OCLC:
- 33983525
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