Murphy Tom
Murphy Tom - Murphy Plays: 5 The Wake; Too Late For Logic; The House; Alice Trilogy - Paperback
Murphy Tom - Murphy Plays: 5 The Wake; Too Late For Logic; The House; Alice Trilogy - Paperback
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Description: Murphy Plays: 5 brings together four of the authors recent works: The Wake Too Late for Logic The House and Alice Trilogy. The Wake recounts the story of a woman returning from the US a to her home town in Ireland. As her family learn of her years as a prostitute she finds the drewam of her homecoming turning into a nightmare. A homecoming play that is haunting yet fiercely comic. Too Late for Logic: "" A major new play. these scenes are beautifully imagined ache with feeling and flower into incidents of piercing sadness or absurd laughter"" (The Times) The House: "" The most compelling indictment of emigration ever committed to the stage"" (Irish Times) Alice Trilogy dramatises three stages in Alice's life: 1980, in the afternoon murk of her attic is Alice losing her grip on reality? 1995, she has summoned a lost love to meet her by the gasworks wall. 2005, at the airport: if the worst has happened why is it bearable?
Title: Murphy Plays: 5 The Wake; Too Late For Logic; The House; Alice Trilogy
Author(s): Murphy Tom
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9780713683639
Pages: 384 Pages
Publication Date: 10/9/2006
Series: Contemporary Dramatists
Category: Plays, Playscripts
Description: Murphy Plays: 5 brings together four of the authors recent works: The Wake Too Late for Logic The House and Alice Trilogy. The Wake recounts the story of a woman returning from the US a to her home town in Ireland. As her family learn of her years as a prostitute she finds the drewam of her homecoming turning into a nightmare. A homecoming play that is haunting yet fiercely comic. Too Late for Logic: "" A major new play. these scenes are beautifully imagined ache with feeling and flower into incidents of piercing sadness or absurd laughter"" (The Times) The House: "" The most compelling indictment of emigration ever committed to the stage"" (Irish Times) Alice Trilogy dramatises three stages in Alice's life: 1980, in the afternoon murk of her attic is Alice losing her grip on reality? 1995, she has summoned a lost love to meet her by the gasworks wall. 2005, at the airport: if the worst has happened why is it bearable?
Title: Murphy Plays: 5 The Wake; Too Late For Logic; The House; Alice Trilogy
Author(s): Murphy Tom
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9780713683639
Pages: 384 Pages
Publication Date: 10/9/2006
Series: Contemporary Dramatists
Category: Plays, Playscripts
