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Contemporary Irish Plays showcases the new drama that has emerged
since 2008. Featuring a blend of established and emerging writers,
the anthology shows how Irish writers are embracing new methods of
theatre-making to explore exciting new themes - while also finding
new ways to come to terms with the legacies of the Troubles and the
Celtic Tiger. The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant tells the tragic
story of a family disintegrating, having lost its moral values.
Written by leading Irish playwright Tom Murphy, it was produced at
the Abbey Theatre in June 2009. Drum Belly is a fascinating play
about the Irish mafia in late 1960s' New York. It premiered at the
Abbey Theatre in 2012. Previously unpublished, Planet Belfast by
Rosemary Jenkinson is about a woman named Alice - Stormont's only
Green MLA who must toe a delicate line between large, sectarian
power bases in order to promote an environmental agenda in Northern
Ireland. Forgotten features the interconnecting stories of four
elderly people living in retirement homes and care facilities
around Ireland, who range in age from 80 to 100 years old.Desolate
Heaven is a story about two young girls hoping to find freedom from
home in the trappings of love. It was first performed at Theatre
503, London, in 2013 Written for the 2012 Dublin Theatre Festival,
and previously unpublished, The Boys of Foley Street by Louise Lowe
is a piece of site-specific theatre which led audience members on a
tour of the backstreets of inner-city Dublin. Freefall is a sharp,
humorous and exhilarating look at the fragility of a human life,
blending impressionistic beauty, poignancy and comedy. Edited by
the leading scholar on Irish theatre, Patrick Lonergan,
Contemporary Irish Plays is a timely reminder of the long-held
tradition and strength of Irish theatre which blossoms even in its
new-found circumstances.
Silent is the touching and provocative story of homeless McGoldrig
who once had splendid things. But he has lost it all - including
his mind. He now dives into the wonderful wounds of his past
through the romantic world of Rudolph Valentino. Silent has been
described as 'a moving story, which, until its end, pulses with the
erratic noise of life' (Irish Times), 'a must see if ever there was
one' (The List), and as 'magnificent, remarkable' (Irish
Independent). By the same writer, Forgotten features the
interconnecting stories of four elderly people living in retirement
homes and care facilities around Ireland, who range in age from 80
to 100 years old. Both challengingly dark and startlingly
hilarious, Forgotten is 'an unequivocally beautiful piece'
(Scotsman), 'beautifully written and vivid' (New Yorker), conveying
'the secrets, the hidden past, of the aged, and the dignity often
behind their quaint seemingly innocuous bearing' (New York Times).
Forgotten was produced by Fishamble: The New Play Company at over
sixty Irish venues, in eight European countries, and in three US
cities between 2007 and 2012. Silent was originally produced in
2011, also by Fishamble, winning the Scotsman Fringe First and the
Herald Angel awards at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the Argus
Angel at the Brighton Festival 2012, as well as touring Ireland,
Paris, Edinburgh, Los Angeles and New York. 'Kinevane has an
extremely acute, innate and intuitive sense of comedy that enable
him to tightrope across the gross and heartbreaking circumstances
of life, in jest without sacrificing the poignant sadness of a
given predicament' Irish Theatre Magazine
Some folk are impossible to buy for. Mama said it's because they
are usually the ones who are impossible to know... Before is set in
Clerys of Dublin, on the very day this iconic department store
shuts - for good. Pontius is inside, trying to choose a gift for
his estranged daughter, whom he hasn't seen for almost 20 years. He
will meet her in an hour. This father's journey is both beautiful
and strange, from the isolation of his Midlands home to the madness
of O'Connell Street. Before is a new play with much music, which
follows the runaway international success of Fishamble's Pat
Kinevane Trilogy (Forgotten, Silent and Underneath), which have won
Olivier, Scotsman Fringe First, Herald Angel, Argus Angel, Adelaide
Fringe and Stage Raw LA awards. This edition was published to
coincide with the original production which was first produced by
Fishamble: The New Play Company in November 2018.
It's mad that ye're here with me. In Cobh. I always felt like I was
born on the brink of the world. That I was near death, always. And
here I am! Hereafter. This place of slower motion. But whipping
energy. Back Home. A woman lies dead in her grave in the Tumbledown
cemetery, Cobh, County Cork. It's a recent relocation; only two
weeks before she was living in a flat near Croke Park in Dublin,
beneath two East European prostitutes who she had begun to be
friendly with. From her last resting place, she tells the story of
her life: her happy childhood and the mother who loved Cleopatra;
being struck by lightning and then missing school for a year; her
night shifts in hotels washing and mending laundry; up to her
ultimate and untimely demise in a north Dublin flat; all via a
series of unlikely encounters and heartbreaking betrayals. Written
in Pat Kinevane's signature style, Underneath is a blackly comic,
rich and vivid tale of a life lived in secret, a testament to the
people who live on the fringes, under the nose of everyday life.
Underneath was published to coincide with the play's first
production by Fishamble theatre company in December 2014.
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