Methuen Drama, 1997

Modern Plays

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Acts: 1, Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (4), Female (1), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...For one week each autumn, Mick Dowd is hired to disinter the bones in certain sections of his local cemetery, to make way for the new arrivals. As the time approaches for him to dig up those of his own late wife, strange rumours regarding...

Faber and Faber, 2018

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (14), Female (5), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...In a townhouse in Copenhagen works Hans Christian Andersen, a teller of exquisite and fantastic children’s tales beloved by millions. But the true source of his stories dwells in his attic upstairs, her existence a dark secret kept from...

Faber and Faber, 2015

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (15), Female (3), Male (12), Unassigned (0)

...In his small pub in Oldham, Harry is something of a local celebrity. But what's the second-best hangman in England to do on the day they've abolished hanging? Amongst the cub reporters and sycophantic pub regulars, dying to hear Harry...

Methuen Drama, 1996

Modern Classics

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Scenes: 9, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain, lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag, her manipulative ageing mother, whose interference in Maureen's...

Methuen Drama, 2001

Modern Classics

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

...Who knocked 'Mad Padraic's' cat over on a lonely road on the island of Inishmore and was it an accident? He'll want to know when he gets back from a stint of torture and chip-shop bombing in Northern Ireland: he loves his cat more than life...

Methuen Drama, 1997

Modern Classics

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Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (4), Female (1), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Valene and Coleman, two brothers living alone in their father's house after his recent death, find it impossible to exist without massive and violent disputes over the most mundane and innocent of topics. Only father Welsh, the local young...

Faber & Faber, 2003

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (6), Female (2), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...‘The first duty of a storyteller is to tell a story.’ Or was it ‘The only duty of a storyteller is to tell a story’? A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories...