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The Plays of Maura Laverty - Liffey Lane, Tolka Row, A Tree in the Crescent (Hardcover)
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The Plays of Maura Laverty - Liffey Lane, Tolka Row, A Tree in the Crescent (Hardcover)
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Published here for the first time, Maura Laverty’s plays Liffey
Lane, Tolka Row and A Tree in the Crescent are rooted in 1950s
Dublin, its territories and enclaves. Teeming with the lives of the
poor, the ambitious, the trapped and the struggling, the plays are
moving, funny and vividly alive. They capture the capital in a
state of transformation – reaching for modernisation while still
enmired in stagnant class divisions, poor housing and narrow social
values. Key to all three plays are questions of home, the lives of
women and girls, and the impact of conservative government policies
and church attitudes. Already a public figure in Irish life, and an
influencer before her time through her fiction, cookery books and
broadcasting, Laverty’s plays met with huge success when staged
in 1951 and 1952 by Hilton Edwards of the Gate Theatre Company at
Dublin’s Gaiety and Gate Theatres and on tour. Laverty’s
trilogy is a significant and long-awaited part of the
twentieth-century Irish theatrical canon. This volume presents the
Trilogy, including a preface by Christopher Fitz-Simon, who knew
and worked with Laverty. The editors’ introduction contextualises
Laverty’s work and considers the theatrical values of the plays.
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