| Murphy Plays: 3: The Morning After Optimism; The Sanctuary Lamp; The Gigli Concert Contributor(s): Murphy, Tom (Author) |
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ISBN: 0413683508 ISBN-13: 9780413683502 Publisher: Methuen Drama OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1994 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | Anthologies (multiple Authors) |
| Dewey: 822.914 |
| Series: Contemporary Dramatists |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 4.37" W x 6.98" (0.32 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The third collection of plays by The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today Brian Friel James in The Morning After Optimism is literally on the run, a comically exaggerated villain in flight form his crimes, seeking refuge in a fairytale forest. Harry in The Sanctuary Lamp is holed up in a church like a mediaeval outlaw, hoping to keep at bay the guilt of his messy life. JPW King in The Gigli Concert is a kind of cross between Dr Livingstone and Robinson Crusoe, a missionary who has become a shipwrecked loner, an Englishman sent to Dublin by a cult to convert the natives, and left there, beached and bereft. (Fintan O'Toole) |