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Conversations on a homecoming / Tom Murphy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murphy, Thomas, 1935- author.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury, [2013]
- Summary:
- Fresh from an apparently successful acting career abroad, Michael has returned to his old home town; back to the youth club-turned-pub where he and his friends once hashed out their plans for the future. That pub, 'The White House', stood as a place where free thought was possible for the young people of the town, away from the church and from the school. Now, though, the reunited friends are tied down to the realities of their lives after youth has given way to slow but steady decay, and as the evening wanes to night, their true lack of direction becomes clear through muddled conversations as pints are poured and drank. Standing over all of this are the absent bar owner JJ and his beloved portrait of the late JFK, both fallen heroes from an idealistic and idealised time now long gone. 'Conversations on a Homecoming' was first performed by the Druid Theatre Company, Galway, on 16 April 1985.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: in Plays two. London: Methuen Drama, 1997.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 23, 2013).
- OCLC:
- 879713163
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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