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Murphy Plays: 1 Tom Murphy

Murphy Plays: 1 By Tom Murphy

Murphy Plays: 1 by Tom Murphy

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Summary

Contains three of Tom Murphy's plays Famine, The Patriot Game and The Blue Macushia, which has never before appeared in print. Tom Murphy is an Irish playwright whose work has been staged at the Royal Court, Warehouse and Almeida theatres.

Murphy Plays: 1 Summary

Murphy Plays: 1: Famine; The Patriot Game; The Blue Macuschla by Tom Murphy

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.

About Tom Murphy

Tom Murphy was born in Tuam, County Galway. He live in Dublin. He has received numerous theatre awards and holds honorary degrees from Trinity College Dublin and NUI (Galway). A six-play season celebrating his work - Tom Murphy at the Abbey - was presented at the Abbey Theatre in 2001. He has written for television and film, and a novel, The Seduction of Morality. His stage plays include On the Outside (with Noel O'Donoghue), A Whistle in the Dark, A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer's Assistant, Famine, The Morning After Optimism, The White House, On the Inside, The Sanctuary Lamp, Epitaph Under Ether (a compilation from the works of J.M. Synge), The Blue Macushla, Conversations on a Homecoming, The Gigli Concert, Bailegangaire, A Thief of a Christmas, Too Late for Logic, The Patriot Game, She Stoops to Folly (from The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith), The Wake, The House, The Drunkard, The Cherry Orchard (a version), Alice Trilogy and The Informer (from the novel by Liam O'Flaherty).

Table of Contents

Famine; The Patriot Game; The Blue Macuschla

Additional information

GOR002366823
9780413665706
0413665704
Murphy Plays: 1: Famine; The Patriot Game; The Blue Macuschla by Tom Murphy
Tom Murphy
Contemporary Dramatists
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
19920215
252
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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