| Murphy Plays: 1: Famine; The Patriot Game; The Blue Macuschla Contributor(s): Murphy, Tom (Author) |
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ISBN: 0413665704 ISBN-13: 9780413665706 Publisher: Methuen Drama OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2006 Annotation: A major statement by a major Irish playwright.--Irish Times |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 822 |
| LCCN: 93136070 |
| Series: Contemporary Dramatists |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.14" W x 8" (0.64 lbs) 252 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The first collection of plays by The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today Brian Friel Famine portrays the Great Hunger of the Irish in 1840s, with fresh pathos and insight, Patriot Games is a documentary drama charting the 1916 Easter rising and The Blue Macushla is a live gangster movie on stage set in the Republic of the 1970s with the politics of the Troubles emerging in Northern Ireland spilling over into the South. |