Dublin, the 1960s. After Da's funeral, Charlie returns to his
childhood home only to find his father's ghost stubbornly unwilling
to leave the house. As the events of Charlie's youth and Da's
troubled relationship with Mother are replayed, we discover the
darkly comic, bittersweet relationship that existed between father
and son.
"A beguiling play about a son's need to come to terms with his
father and himself ... in a class with the best of Sean
O'Casey."--"New York Times"
Hugh Leonard is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and
novelist. His plays include the Tony Award-winning "Da" (1973) and
Tony-nominated "A Life" (1979). Other plays include "A Leap in the
Dark" (1957), "A Walk on the Water" (1960), "The Saints Go Cycling
In" (1965), "The Au Pair Man" (1968), "The Patrick Pearse Motel"
(1971) and "Time Was" (1976). Other works include the screenplays
for TV adaptations of "Great Expectations," "Nicholas Nickleby,"
"The Moonstone," "Wuthering Heights" and "Good Behaviour." His
novelisation of his 4-part drama "Parnell and the Englishwoman"
(BBC) won the 1992 Sagittarius Award. He has published two volumes
of autobiography, "Home Before Night" and "Out After Dark" as well
as his novel "A Wild People."
Since its formation as the National Theatre of Ireland by W.B.
Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory in 1904, the Abbey Theatre has been
the cradle of new drama in Ireland for successive generations of
Irish playwrights. From the early works of Synge and O'Casey to
those by writers at the cutting edge of Irish theatre today, new
plays have remained at the very core of the National Theatre's
artistic policy and have helped to establish and maintain its
reputation as Ireland's foremost cultural institution.
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