Owen McCafferty: Plays 1

Mojo Mickybo; Shoot the Crow; Closing Time; Scenes from the Big Picture; the Waiting List

AvOwen McCafferty

E-bok

Engelska, 2013

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Owen McCafferty's first collection brings together one short- and four full-length plays set in the author's home city of Belfast. Shoot The Crow'Tragicomedy of character and circumstance that makes McCafferty look like a ribald Northern Irish Chekov.' Guardian.Scenes From The Big Picture'An epic that attempts to put the whole of human life on stage - birth, death, love, sex, work, families - the whole damn thing... McCafferty offers us a wise and compassionate view of the human heart.' TelegraphClosing Time'The existence of a writer as good as McCafferty induces a perverse, paradoxical hope.' GuardianMojo Mikibo'A razor sharp evocation of time and place.' Irish Times

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-10-01
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780571309542
Förlag:Faber & Faber

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Over the past twenty-five years Owen McCafferty's plays have been performed worldwide and have won numerous awards. Previous work includes Titanic: Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry, 1912 (MAC, Belfast); The Absence of Women (Lyric Theatre, Belfast, and Tricycle Theatre, London); Days of Wine and Roses (Donmar Theatre, London); Closing Time (National Theatre, London); Shoot the Crow (Druid, Galway); Mojo Mickybo (Kabosh, Belfast); Scenes from the Big Picture (National Theatre, London), which won the Meyer-Whitworth, John Whiting and Evening Standard Awards; Quietly (Abbey Theatre, Dublin), which won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Play; Death of a Comedian (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Lyric Theatre, Belfast, and Soho Theatre, London); Fire Below (A War of Words) (Lyric Theatre, Belfast, and Abbey Theatre, Dublin) and Agreement (Lyric Theatre, Belfast, commissioned by MGC). Owen's first screenplay Ordinary Love won Best Picture 2020 at the Irish Film & Television Awards.