The second collection of plays by "The most distinctive, the most
restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish
theatre today" Brian Friel In Conversations on a Homecoming,
Michael returns from America to Ireland for a long-awaited reunion
with his drinking companions: "A bilious bar-room comedy on the
irreducible elements in the Irish character and the death of the
Kennedy dream" (Observer), Bailegangaire "is as complex and
haunting as one of Yeats' later poems...A senile bedridden old
woman rehearses over and over again an epic tale of a village
laughing match...Meanwhile her two granddaughters struggle to
release themeselves from the prison of remembered unhappiness.
"Here is a potent allegory - of the need to exorcise the past and
its myths if one is to be happy in the future." (Sunday Telegraph)
Tom Murphy was born in Tuam, County Galway, his other plays include
Conversations on a Home Coming, Balegangaire and A Thief of
Christmas; The Morning After Optimism, The Sanctuary Lamp and The
Gigli Concert as well as more recently Cupa Coffee and The Wake
(1996), and She Stoops to Folly. His career has been closely
associated with The Abbey Theatre, Dublin who have produced many of
his plays.
General
| Imprint: |
Methuen Drama
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Contemporary Dramatists |
| Release date: |
March 1993 |
| First published: |
April 1993 |
| Authors: |
Tom Murphy
|
| Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
256 |
| Edition: |
Reissue |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-413-67560-6 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Literature: texts >
Drama texts, plays >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-413-67560-2 |
| Barcode: |
9780413675606 |
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