Methuen Drama, 1991

Contemporary Dramatists

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Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (9), Female (1), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...In their introduction to the play, authors Margaretta D'Arcy and John Arden say of Ars Longa Vita Brevis: 'This little piece is not exactly a play, nor is it anything else in particular. If we must call it something, it might well be termed...

Methuen Drama, 1991

Contemporary Dramatists

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...'We were looking up texts for this book, and we came across a file full of fragmentary scripts (and notes for scripts) which had been a series of quickly-improvised topical plays and playlets got together in the west of Ireland and put...

Methuen Drama, 1991

Contemporary Dramatists

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Roles: Total (11), Female (5), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...The Business of Good Government was written for and first performed in 1960 in the village of Brent Knoll, Somerset. Telling the traditional story of the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, it focuses less on the divine and miraculous, and more...

Methuen Drama, 1991

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (13), Female (2), Male (11), Unassigned (0)

...The Little Gray Home in the West was a reworking of a 1972 play called The Ballygombeen Bequest which was described by the Guardian as 'a freewheeling Brechtian parable of sickness, colonialism and capitalism in Ireland...

Methuen Drama, 1991

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (18), Female (5), Male (13), Unassigned (0)

...After years of war, peace is to be reached between England and France, sealed by the marriage of the English prince and the French princesse. A company of actors are to be sent from England to Paris, to perform...

Methuen Drama, 1991

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 20, Roles: Total (36), Female (6), Male (30), Unassigned (0)

...John Vandaleur was an estate owner in County Clare in the west of Ireland. In 1831, tired of the outrages committed by some of his tenants in the throes of a violent organisation named 'The Ribbonmen', Vandaleur established a co-operative...