Retrospectives. Growing up in Tuam ; Living in London ; Working with the Abbey ; Partnership with Druid ; Writing, rewriting, recycling -- Predicaments of Irish men : On the inside/on the outside, A crucial week in the life of a grocer's assistant, A whistle in the dark. Shut out, shut in ; Staying or going ; Whistling in the dark -- Staging history : The Patriot game, Famine. Commemoration ; Trauma -- Beyond mimicry : The Blue Macushla, the White House, Conversations on a homecoming. Borrowing a style ; Images ; Orchestrating the ordinary -- The pursuit of property : The wake, The house. Grasping and letting go ; House and home -- Worlds of their own : the morning after optimism ; The sanctuary lamp. Astray in the forest ; Holed up in the church -- Words and music : Too late for logic, The Gigli concern. To be or not to be ; Myth, music, magic -- The lives of women : Alice trilogy, The Mommo plays. Innerworlds ; Telling their story -- Critical perspectives. Interview with Tom Murphy ; Misfortunes : A thief of a Christmas and Bailegangaire / Lucy McDiarmid ; About survival : reading Murphy with Lyotard / Alexandra Poulain.
