Barry Plays: 1 (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
320
Utgivningsdatum
1997-05-01
Förlag
Methuen Drama
Medarbetare
Barry, Sebastian / O'Toole, Fintan
Illustratör/Fotograf
black & white illustrations
Illustrationer
black & white illustrations
Volymtitel
v.1 "Boss Grady's Boys", "Prayers of Sherikin", "White Woman Street", "Steward of Christendom"
Dimensioner
204 x 128 x 20 mm
Vikt
368 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
4:B&W 5 x 8 in or 203 x 127 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780413711205

Barry Plays: 1

Boss Grady's Boys; Prayers of Sherikin; White Woman Street; Steward of Christendom

av Sebastian Barry
Häftad,  Engelska, 1997-05-01
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"Cerebral and lyrical, he is the new crown prince of Ireland's majestic theatrical tradition" (Newsweek) In Boss Grady's boys, Mick and Josey are two old fellas employed on a hill-farm on the Cork-Kerry border, still dreaming of the Wild West and freedom; Prayers of Sherkin, set in the 1890s, captures a moment of change at which ideology and doctrine are discarded for the sake of survival "The play is like a gentle requiem for a dead community" (Irish Times); White Woman Street is about Irish emigration to the South of America "Weaving together a Western...and a very Irish drama of exile" (Independent). The Only True History of Lizzie Finn, is based on the life of the author's own grandmother and in it "Barry uses Lizzie's dilemma to explore the economic decay of the 1890s landowning class and the whaleboned snobberies of rural Ireland" (Guardian). In The Steward of Christendom, Thomas Dunne, an ex-chief superintendent of the Dublin Metropolitan police looks back on his career built during the latter years of Queen Victoria's empire, from his home in Baltinglass in Dublin in 1932."Sebastian Barry's plays are about history, but not in any very obvious or familiar sense...The history that informs these plays is a history of counter-currents, of lost strands, of untold stories. Against the simple narrative of Irish history as a long tale of colonisation and resistance, Barry releases more complex stories of people who are, in one way or another, a disgrace to that history...In Sebastian Barry's luminous plays, grace and disgrace are not opposites but constant companions." (Fintan O'Toole)
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"Cerebral and lyrical, he is the new crown prince of Ireland's majestic theatrical tradition" --Newsweek

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Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. he was elected to Aoisdna in 1989 and was Ansbacher Writer-in-Residence at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 1990. His plays include The Pentagonal Dream (Damer Theatre, Dublin, 1986); Boss Grady's Boys (Abbey Theatre, Peacock Stage, Dublin, 1988), which won the first BBC/Stewart Parker Award; Prayers of Sherkin (Abbey Theatre, Peacock stage, Dublin, 1990); White Woman Street (Bush Theatre, London, 1992); The Steward of Christendom (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London, 1995), which won numerous awards including the Writers' Guild Award for Best Fringe Play of 1995, the London Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play, Lloyds' Private Banking Playwright of the Year Award and was nominated for an Olivier Award; and The Only True History of Lizzie Finn (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1995). More recent plays include Our Lady of Sligo (1998); Hinterland (2002); Whistling Psyche (2004); Fred and Jane (2004); The Pride of Parnell Street (2008); Dallas Sweetman (2008); Tales of Ballycumber (2009); and Andersen's English (2010). He has also published several works of poetry and fiction.

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Boss Grady's Boys; Prayers of Sherikin; White Woman Street; Steward of Christendom

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