Synopsis
Away Alone
Published by Samuel French Inc
5 Male 3 Female
Unfortunately Seamus has had to split to stay a jump ahead of immigration agents, but other patrons are willing to help Liam find lodging; he already has a construction job lined up. Liam moves in with the bar's cook, a wry gardener who works in Westchester, and an aspiring poet
Living upstairs are two Irish girls, one who embraces the freedom she has found in America and the other a prudish husband hunter
This beguiling group of young immigrants show Liam the way and, as the play closes, he is an assimilated American willing and able to help newcomers who come into the bar asking for Seamus
"Such vitality, such enthusiasm, such intelligence.... A lovely, rewarding evening of theatre" ~ N.Y. Post
"Gently comic but hard headed in its assessment of how hard it is to survive New York in an illegal immigrant's circumstances" ~ N.Y. Times