Far from the Land: Contemporary Irish Plays - Couverture souple

Woods, Vincent; Carville, Daragh; Walsh, Enda; O'Kelly, Donal; McCabe, Patrick; Morrison, Conall

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0413722708 ISBN 13 : 9780413722706

Editeur : Methuen Drama, 1998

Synopsis

A startling collection of plays by playwrights working in the north and south of Ireland, all of which have been groundbreaking events in contemporary Irish theatre


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At The Black Pig's Dyke by Vincent Woods depicts a group of mummers in the borderland between North and South, blending their rituals of death with the all-too-modern assassins going about their awful task; in Hard To Believe by Conall Morrison an army intelligence agent for the British invokes his Protestant preacher grandfather and his turncoat father who married a Catholic and thereafter denied his background; in Disco Pigs by Enda Walsh two friends bonded in their fantasies and shared baby-talk face into Cork city on their seventeenth birthday; Frank Pig Says Hello by Patrick McCabe (Winner of the 1997 George Devine Award) is about the sullen meanness of a village community towards an innocently simple young man; in Language Roulette by Daragh Carville a group of young people in Belfast come together for a reunion and the underlying atmosphere is anger and revenge; Bat The Father, Rabbit The Son by Donal O'Kelly is a powerful personal story about the reversal of a father-son relationship where the son is envious of the father's unambitious expressiveness.

Foreword by the award-winning Irish playwright, Sebastian Barry
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A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Vincent Woods was born in Co. Leitrim in 1960. His plays include <I>At The Black Pig's Dyke</I> (Druid Theatre Company,1992); <I>Song of the Yellow Bluern</I> (Druid 1994), and <I>On the Way Out </I>(Skehana Theatre Company, 2002). His work has been staged in Ireland, the US, England, Canada and Australia and has been translated into French, German and Irish. He worked as a journalist and broadcaster before becoming a full-time writer. He adapted Ignazio Silone's novel <I>Fontamara </I>for stage and has written a version of Alfred Jarry's <I>Ubu Roi</I>; two plays for children: <I>The Brown Man</I> and <I>The Donkey Prince</I>; and radio plays, including <I>The Leitrim Hotel </I>and <I>The Gospels of Aughuinore</I>.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Methuen Drama
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0413722708
• ISBN 13: 9780413722706
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 356
• Éditeur: Fairleigh John
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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