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A Skull in Connemara
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Description
Winner 1996 Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright; Winner 1996 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright
For one week each autumn, Mick Dowd is hired to disinter the bones in certain sections of his local cemetery, to make way for new arrivals. As the time approaches for him to dig up those of his own late wife, strange rumours regarding his involvement in her sudden death seven years ago gradually begin to resurface.
Product details

Published | 01 Aug 2006 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 96 |
ISBN | 9780413719706 |
Imprint | Methuen Drama |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
Series | Modern Plays |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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'[A] macabre little masterpiece... McDonagh disposes the elements of his play with a beautiful intricacy and his banter is bang up to date.'
Lloyd Evans, Spectator, 27.6.09
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This slice of Irish gothic isn't for the faint-hearted: with all the fecks and blood and smashing of skulls, it's a bit of an assault on the senses.'
Robert Shore, Time Out London, 25.6.09
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a superior play that redefined the concept of graveyard humour. . . . the bone-crunching scene remains an episode only he [McDonagh] could write; an unforgettable image of surplus skeletons left to rest in pieces.
Guardian