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Description
Brigit
I'd like it to be perfect . . . Beautiful . . . The statue . . . Unbeatable? . . . I'd like it to be what I feel . . . And I don't know what that is.
Set in the 1950s, Brigit, a prequel to Murphy's critically-acclaimed Bailegangaire (1985), tells the story of Mommo and Séamus, grandparents living on the breadline, who are raising three grandchildren: Mary, Dolly and Tom, when Séamus is offered a job to carve a statue of St Brigit.
Brigit premiered in September 2014, in a production by Druid Theatre Company, Galway, Ireland.
Bailegangaire
'One of the finest and most inventive pieces of Irish dramatic writing ever - the power of its language soaring beyond the loftiest aspirations of Synge and its insights on the human spirit cutting deeper than O'Casey's' - Sunday Independent
A Thief of a Christmas
'Grand opera . . . both timeless and contemporary' - Fintan O'Toole
Product details

Published | Sep 30 2014 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 208 |
ISBN | 9781474218108 |
Imprint | Methuen Drama |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
Series | Play Anthologies |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Murphy is, I suspect, the greatest dramatist writing in English.
Alexander Gilmour, Financial Times