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Description
A major play from a major Irish playwright
"Bailegangaire is as complex and haunting as one of Yeats' later poems ... A senile bedridden old woman rehearses over and over again an epic tale of a village laughing match ... Meanwhile her two granddaughters struggle to release themselves from the prison of remembered unhappiness. Here is a potent allegory - of the need to exorcise the past and its myths if one is to be happy in the future." (Sunday Telegraph)
Product details

Published | 15 Aug 2001 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 75 |
ISBN | 9780413771216 |
Imprint | Methuen Drama |
Dimensions | 203 x 127 mm |
Series | Modern Plays |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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The remarkable 1985 play that helped to put Tom Murphy up alongside Brian Friel as one of the great masters of modern Irish playwriting.
Scotsman
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Murphy ... is among Irelamd's greatest living dramatists. Bailegangaire ... can only further enhance his reputation.
Sunday Herald
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Murphy's writing has the emotional weight and the intellectual athleticism of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.
Sunday Herald