Plays by Nation - Irish Plays

Murphy Plays 4 - A Whistle in the Dark & A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocery Assistant & On the Outside On the Inside

Tom Murphy

Methuen

"The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today" ~ Brian Friel

$26.99

A Galway Girl

Geraldine Aron

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 1 Female

A couple sit at opposite ends of a table reminiscing about their life together Each has a point of view and they rarely address each other directly. They are young to begin with, then middle aged, then old,...

$8.99

Brian Friel - Plays Two

Brian Friel

Faber & Faber

This second collection of Brian Friel's plays includes some of his most acclaimed work for the stageThe plays included are: The Freedom of the City (1973) Volunteers (1975) Living Quarters (1977) Aristoc...

$28.99

Translations

Brian Friel

Faber & Faber

The action in Translations takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal In a nearby field camps a recently arrived detachmen...

$12.99

Irish Literature Papers

Joseph McMinn - ed

Used Copy

The Internationalism of Irish Literature and Drama from Papers given at the July 1988 Conference of the International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature.

$65

By the Bog of Cats

Marina Carr

Dramatists Play Service

6 Male 5 Female

Loosely based on Euripides' tragedy Medea, this is the prophetic tale of Hester Swane, an Irish Traveller, who attempts to come to terms with a lifetime of abandonment in a world where all whom she has lo...

$13

The Wake

Tom Murphy

Methuen

6 Male 5 Female

The Wake recounts the story of a woman, returning from the USA to her home town in Ireland. As her family learn of her years as a prostitute, she learns their attitudes and Irish society in general A homec...

$15.99

She Stoops to Folly

Tom Murphy

Methuen

Modelled on Oliver Goldsmith's classic novel The Vicar of Wakefield, Murphy builds a comedy peopled with thieves, pimps, bawds, lechers and imposters who will prey on innocence unless God - or the ruling c...

$15.99

The Playboy of the Western World

John Millington Synge

New Mermaid

This is one of the New Mermaid series which offers modern spelling & fully-annotated editions of important English plays. Each volume includes a critical introduction, biography of the author, discussions of...

$16.99

The Walworth Farce

Enda Walsh

Nick Hern Books

3 Male 1 Female

A remarkable play from the author of Bedbound and Disco Pigs, about what can happen when we become stuck in the stories we tell about our lives It's 11 o'clock in the morning in a council flat on the Walwor...

$14.99

Frank McGuinness - Plays One

Frank McGuinness

Faber & Faber

This first collection by Frank McGuinness contains plays from the 1980s, including his major work of that decade - Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, a powerful and profoundly moving stud...

$24.99

The Passion of Jerome

Dermot Bolger

Methuen

** 10% DISCOUNT ** This is a story of a violent haunting ... The story of an ordinary man forced to confront both his own demons and the manifestation of the supernatural beyond his comprehension and con...

$16.99

The Weir

Conor McPherson

Nick Hern Books

4 Male 1 Female

"'The play of the decade... a modern masterpiece" ~ Express In a bar in rural Ireland, the landlord and three regulars attempt to spook a young woman who has recently arrived from Dublin But as the conver...

$14.99

A Moon for the Misbegotten

Eugene ONeill

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 1 Female

This play is part of a cycle dealing with the four haunted Tyrones and follows in sequence the previously written Long Day's Journey into Night. It concerns James, Jr., believed to be the fictional counterpa...

$10.99

Friday's Child

Pamela Sterling

Dramatic Publishing

6 Male 2 Female

The coming of age of a 13-year-old Catholic boy in Northern Ireland activates this emotionally moving play, Friday's Child is set amidst the current struggle between British and Irish, Catholic and Protest...

$9.99