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Contents: The Travelling Man; Spreading the News; Kincora; Hyacinth Halvey; The Doctor in Spite of Himself; The Gaol Gate; The Rising of the Moon; Dervorgilla; The Workhouse Ward; Grania; The Golden Apple; The Story Brought by Brigit; Dave Lady Gregory wrote her first play when she was forty nine years old. Apart from her collaborations with W.B.Yeats and others, and translated adaptations, she produced thirty nine plays, while devoting a great ddeal of time to the management of the Abbey Theatre, and the Lane Pictures. Described with admiration by Bernard Shaw as the Irish Moliere, she contributed plays in every genre-comedies, tragedies, tragic-comedies, wonder and supernatural plays-and for every audience, most effectively in the one act form. This collection of thirteen plays, and her writings about them, is intended to show the breadth of her playwriting abilities, and her thoughts on the plays and their creation. Chosen, and with an introduction, by Mary FitzGerald, this third volume in the Irish Drama Selections series has a bibliographical checklist by Colin Smythe.
Although Micheál mac Liammóir is best known as an actor and, with Hilton Edwards, founder of Dublin's Gate Theatre, he was also an artist and stage and costume designer of great talent and an accomplished playwright. The present selection contains five of his plays as well as some of his writings 'On Plays and Players,' and a bibliographical checklist. Contents: Where Stars Walk, Ill Met by Moonlight, The Mountains Look Different, The Liar, and Prelude in Kazbek Street
Michael Joseph Molloy (1917-1994) was born and died in Milltown, Co. Galway. He originally intended to join the priesthood but was struck down by tuberculosis. It was during the long periods he spent in the hospital that he started writing plays, having been inspired by a childhood visit to the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. His first play, Old Road, was produced at the Abbey in 1943, as were The Visiting House in 1946 and The King of Friday's Men in 1948. When the old theatre burned down and the company moved to the Queen's Theatre, his The Wood of the Whispering and The Paddy Pedlar were produced there, followed by The Will and the Way, The Right Rose Tree, and The Wooing of Duvesa. After the comp...
Featuring original essays by leading scholars in the field, this book explores the immense legacy of women playwrights in Irish theatre since the beginning of theTwentieth century. Chapters consider the intersecting contexts of gender, sexuality and the body in order to investigate the broader cultural, political and historical implications of representing 'woman' on the stage. In addition, a number of essays engage with representations of women by a selection of male playwrights in order to re-evaluate familiar contexts and traditions in Irish drama. Features a Foreword by Marina Carr and a useful appendix of Irish women playwrights and their works.
The plays in this work include: The Turn of the Road, The Drone, The Troth, Red Turf, Bridgehead, Peter and Phantoms
Contents: Mixed Marriage; Jane Clegg; John Ferguson; Boyd's Shop; Friends and Relations