Frank McGuinness Plays 1
β Scribed by Frank McGuinness
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 134 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0571300766
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
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 study of a group of Ulster Protestant volunteers in the Great War. The book also contains Carthaginians , set in a Derry graveyard in the aftermath of the Bloody Sunday killings, Innocence , McGuinness's vigorous drama based on the life of Caravaggio, The Factory Girls and Baglady.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Jonathan Harvey's most popular plays collected in one volume for the first time. Contains the smash hit plays *Beautiful Thing* - a bittersweet tale of the joys and trials of living cheek-by-jowl in a Thamesmead housing estate; *Babies -* based on the playwright's experiences as a teacher which wa
Few playwrights have been as successful as Kwame Kwei-Armah atbringing a distinctive new voice and examination of our culture to thestage in recent years. This collection of his work includes his trilogyof plays commissioned and produced by the National Theatre between 2003and 2008, and Let There Be
In his day, W. Somerset Maugham was most celebrated as a playwright, and the breadth of his ability is manifested in this collection of his most popular plays. Included here are the noirish mystery _The Sacred Flame_ , the hilarious satires _The Circle_ , _The Constant Wife_ , and _Our Betters_ , an