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The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant

Author : Tom Murphy
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408145863
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant written by Tom Murphy and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic family drama, shot through with dark humour, The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant tells the tragic story of a family disintegrating, having lost its moral values. Arina is an ambitious woman. As a servant girl she marries into the degenerative family she works for; her ruthless energy saves it from bankruptcy and she expands the family estate into an 'empire'. As matriarch she rules with an iron hand, her avarice insatiable, until she questions what it is all for. She slackens her hold and loses her power to the hypocrisy and relentless grasping of her 'chosen son'. Inspired by The Golovlyov Family by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant is a haunting new work from leading Irish dramatist Tom Murphy, who has worked closely with the Abbey Theatre throughout his career. The play premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Ireland, on 3 June 2009.

Donegal

Author : Frank McGuinness
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571335764
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Donegal written by Frank McGuinness and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Day family are Irish country-music royalty and Irene is their queen. Her relatives are completely dependent on her success. But as Irene's star fades, the Days are facing financial destruction. When the heir to her musical throne, Jackie Day, returns from the States with a new girlfriend, resentments simmer. Does Irene have the strength to hold the clan together? And will Jackie save them with the gift of a song?

Freefall

Author : Michael West
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408135620
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Freefall written by Michael West and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-07-10 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are things I haven't said. Things I want to say again. I need to think. I need more time. A sudden shock, and a man's life flashes before his eyes. He experiences an intense rush of extraordinary images and tangled memories, revelations and lost connections. People time and places swirl around him. As he valiantly attempts to stitch it all back together, will his luck hold out? The play's conceit follows a man who has suffered a stroke experiencing a series of flashbacks. Trapped within his own head, the audience are taken with him through a whistlestop tour of his life: a series of vivid, often painful episodes from childhood tragedy to crumbling marriage. In a beguiling portrait of mortality and humanity, Freefall explores memory, family and loss. From the author of Dublin by Lamplight and Foley, Freefall reunites award-winning Irish playwright Michael West with The Corn Exchange: Dublin's innovative theatre company who explore the boundaries and possibilities of theatre with their trademark style of Commedia dell'Arte. Freefall is a sharp, humorous and exhilarating look at the fragility of a human life, blending impressionistic beauty, poignancy and comedy.

Dublin by Lamplight

Author : Michael West
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350041122
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Dublin by Lamplight written by Michael West and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martyn Wallace awoke in his boarding house and held his aching head. His room was brown and dirty and bare. He called it Reading Gaol. Amidst the filth and fury of Dublin 1904, the theatrical event of the century is about to explode! Fading stars, rebels, whores and romantics irreverently expose the strange and lurid world of Dublin by Lamplight. An instant hit when it first opened in 2004, this hugely entertaining and anarchic production is a night to change a nation's destiny! Unless it all goes horribly wrong . . . Written by Michael West in collaboration with Corn Exchange theatre company, Dublin by Lamplight was first produced at the Project Arts Centre in Dublin in 2004, before a transfer to the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in 2005. This new edition of the playscript was published to coincide with a major revival at the Abbey Theatre in spring 2017

Tina's Idea of Fun

Author : Sean P. Summers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350006866
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Tina's Idea of Fun written by Sean P. Summers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just wanna be a better mother, that's all... some sort of a decent mother. Tina can't get through to her son. Stuck on the drink and tormented by her past, what will she do to get his attention? Paddy is a quiet man just looking for someone to talk to. He's a Republican, but he'll shake his fist at anything these days. When Queen Elizabeth II makes her first visit to Ireland, Tina's post-protest party brings out the worst in everyone. What lengths will people go to, to make a connection? Tina's Idea of Fun was first published to coincide with the world premiere on the Peacock stage of The Abbey Theatre, Dublin in April 2016.

Irish Drama and Theatre Since 1950

Author : Patrick Lonergan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147426266X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Irish Drama and Theatre Since 1950 written by Patrick Lonergan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on major new archival discoveries and recent research, Patrick Lonergan presents an innovative account of Irish drama and theatre, spanning the past seventy years. Rather than offering a linear narrative, the volume traces key themes to illustrate the relationship between theatre and changes in society. In considering internationalization, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the Celtic Tiger period, feminism, and the changing status of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Lonergan asserts the power of theatre to act as an agent of change and uncovers the contribution of individual artists, plays and productions in challenging societal norms. Irish Drama and Theatre since 1950 provides a wide-ranging account of major developments, combined with case studies of the premiere or revival of major plays, the establishment of new companies and the influence of international work and artists, including Tennessee Williams, Chekhov and Brecht. While bringing to the fore some of the untold stories and overlooked playwrights following the declaration of the Irish Republic, Lonergan weaves into his account the many Irish theatre-makers who have achieved international prominence in the period: Samuel Beckett, Siobhán McKenna and Brendan Behan in the 1950s, continuing with Brian Friel and Tom Murphy, and concluding with the playwrights who emerged in the late 1990s, including Martin McDonagh, Enda Walsh, Conor McPherson, Marie Jones and Marina Carr. The contribution of major Irish companies to world theatre is also examined, including both the Abbey and Gate theatres, as well as Druid, Field Day and Charabanc. Through its engaging analysis of seventy years of Irish theatre, this volume charts the acts of gradual but revolutionary change that are the story of Irish theatre and drama and of its social and cultural contexts.

Anna Karenina

Author : Marina Carr
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571337201
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Anna Karenina written by Marina Carr and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vronsky What were you thinking about with your head stuck to the watering can? Anna Oh, the same, always the same. I was thinking about my happiness and about my unhappiness.Russia is changing. Rules have been broken. Chaos is looming. Families are falling apart. Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is an examination of a country in the midst of extraordinary change. Through the impact of one woman's decision, it looks at the troubling cost of love on the human soul. Marina Carr brings a new perspective to Anna Karenina in her stage adaptation of this epic love story, which opened at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in December 2016.

Drum Belly

Author : Richard Dormer
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472508777
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Drum Belly written by Richard Dormer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This city is changing. Different world from when I was a boy. I came over here when I wasn't much taller than you are now. Different world. You know what getting old is? Getting old is slowly losing everything that you're familiar with. Man has just set foot on the moon. The streets of Brooklyn are tense. The Irish Mafia is desperately trying to hold on to their power and more importantly their identity. After all, they built these streets. In this edgy new story, relationships between family, friends and enemies are ultimately challenged. Hold tight as Drum Belly casts you into New York City's deep and dark underworld.

Translated and Visiting Russian Theatre in Britain, 1945–2015

Author : Cynthia Marsh
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030443337
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Translated and Visiting Russian Theatre in Britain, 1945–2015 written by Cynthia Marsh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tackles questions about the reception and production of translated and untranslated Russian theatre in post-WW2 Britain: why in British minds is Russia viewed almost as a run-of-the-mill production of a Chekhov play. Is it because Chekhov is so dominant in British theatre culture? What about all those other Russian writers? Many of them are very different from Chekhov. A key question was formulated, thanks to a review by Susannah Clapp of Turgenev’s A Month in the Country: have the British staged a ‘Russia of the theatrical mind’?

The Theatre of Tom Murphy

Author : Nicholas Grene
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472568125
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Tom Murphy written by Nicholas Grene and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Murphy shot to fame with the London production of A Whistle in the Dark in 1961, establishing him as the outstanding Irish playwright of his generation. The international success of DruidMurphy, the 2012-13 staging of three of his major plays by the Druid Theatre Company, served to underline his continuing appeal and importance. This is the first full scale academic study devoted to his theatre, providing an overview of all his work, with a detailed reading of his most significant texts. His powerful and searchingly honest engagement with Irish history and society is reflected in the violent Whistle in the Dark, the epic Famine (1968), the often hilarious Conversations on a Homecoming (1985) and the darkly Chekhovian The House (2000). Folklore and myth figure more prominently in the spiritual drama of The Sanctuary Lamp (1975), the Faustian Gigli Concert (1983) and the women's stories of Bailegangaire (1985). The range and reach of Murphy's theatre is demonstrated in this informed reading, supported by key interviews with the playwright himself and his most important theatrical and critical interpreters.

The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance

Author : Dennis Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199574197
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance written by Dennis Kennedy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative reference covering primarily actors, playwrights, directors, styles and movements, companies and organizations.

The New Irish Studies

Author : Paige Reynolds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108677169
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The New Irish Studies written by Paige Reynolds and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Irish Studies demonstrates how diverse critical approaches enable a richer understanding of contemporary Irish writing and culture. The early decades of the twenty-first century in Ireland and Northern Ireland have seen an astonishing rate of change, one that reflects the common understanding of the contemporary as a moment of acceleration and flux. This collection tracks how Irish writers have represented the peace and reconciliation process in Northern Ireland, the consequences of the Celtic Tiger economic boom in the Republic, the waning influence of Catholicism, the increased authority of diverse voices, and an altered relationship with Europe. The essays acknowledge the distinctiveness of contemporary Irish literature, reflecting a sense that the local can shed light on the global, even as they reach beyond the limited tropes that have long identified Irish literature. The collection suggests routes forward for Irish Studies, and unsettles presumptions about what constitutes an Irish classic.

The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance

Author : Eamonn Jordan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137585889
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance written by Eamonn Jordan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook offers a multiform sweep of theoretical, historical, practical and personal glimpses into a landscape roughly characterised as contemporary Irish theatre and performance. Bringing together a spectrum of voices and sensibilities in each of its four sections — Histories, Close-ups, Interfaces, and Reflections — it casts its gaze back across the past sixty years or so to recall, analyse, and assess the recent legacy of theatre and performance on this island. While offering information, overviews and reflections of current thought across its chapters, this book will serve most handily as food for thought and a springboard for curiosity. Offering something different in its mix of themes and perspectives, so that previously unexamined surfaces might come to light individually and in conjunction with other essays, it is a wide-ranging and indispensable resource in Irish theatre studies.

Tales of Ballycumber

Author : Sebastian Barry
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571253288
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Ballycumber written by Sebastian Barry and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2009-12-03 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, now, listen, I'll tell you a tale . . . Daffodils are in bloom as dawn breaks over the foothills of Ballycumber, ushering in hope for a new day and stirring the ghosts of a past fraught with sorrow, anguish and emptiness. In search of advice, young Evans Stafford calls at the home of friend and strong-minded traditionalist, Nicholas Farquhar. The following day, as Farquhar learns the devastating consequences of this meeting, he discovers that his memories and words are governed by a buried history; a force far greater than himself. Sebastian Barry's Tales of Ballycumber premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in September 2009.

Masculinities and Manhood in Contemporary Irish Drama

Author : Cormac O'Brien
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030840751
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Masculinities and Manhood in Contemporary Irish Drama written by Cormac O'Brien and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-10 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts the journey, in terms of both stasis and change, that masculinities and manhood have made in Irish drama, and by extension in the broader culture and society, from the 1960s to the present. Examining a diverse corpus of drama and theatre events, both mainstream and on the fringe, this study critically elaborates a seismic shift in Irish masculinities. This book argues, then, that Irish manhood has shifted from embodying and enacting post-colonial concerns of nationalism and national identity, to performing models of masculinity that are driven and moulded by the political and cultural practices of neoliberal capitalism. Masculinities and Manhood in Contemporary Irish Drama charts this shift through chapters on performing masculinity in plays set in both the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland, and through several chapters that focus on Women’s and Queer drama. It thus takes its readers on a journey: a journey that begins with an overtly patriarchal, nationalist manhood that often made direct comment on the state of the nation, and ultimately arrives at several arguably regressive forms of globalised masculinity, which are couched in misaligned notions of individualism and free-choice and that frequently perceive themselves as being in crisis.

Town Is Dead

Author : Phillip McMahon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783197994
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Town Is Dead written by Phillip McMahon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellen thought she’d end her life where it began – in a rundown flat in Dublin’s north inner city. Now her building is sold, and she’s being moved into a box room in her snooty sister’s house in the suburbs. When an unexpected visitor lands in her front room, Ellen is forced to delve into the past in order to lay some ghosts to rest. From the writers of Alice in Funderland, Town is Dead is a living room musical, an ode to Dublin and an exploration of how Ireland treats its people. It looks at the future of the city through the eyes of one older citizen. Town is Dead has been nominated for 5 Irish Theatre Awards 2017, including Best New Play.

A Short History of Ireland's Writers

Author : Prof. A. Norman Jeffares
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
ISBN 13 : 1847176615
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Ireland's Writers written by Prof. A. Norman Jeffares and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to all the leading Irish writers and some of the lesser known playwrights, novelists, short story writers, poets, placing them in context and providing a list of their works. Commentaries give brief but telling insights into their work. The story of Irish writing is followed, beginning with Swift, and working through playwrights Synge and O'Casey to Beckett and Friel; from nineteenth-century poetry through Yeats to Seamus Heaney and Paul Durcan; in novels, from Maria Edgeworth, through Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Kate O'Brien, Flann O'Brien to contemporaries Julia O'Faolain, Roddy Doyle and Anne Enright.