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RRP : £9.99
Our Price : £8.49
Discount : 15%
Pub Date : August 2001
ISBN : 9780413771216
Edition : New ed
Format : Paperback
Dimensions : 203x127mm
Extent : 75 pages
Theme : change, death, family, memory/the past
Cast Info : f3
Modern Plays
Bailegangaire

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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)




About the Author(s)
Tom Murphy's work includes A Whistle in the Dark, Famine, The Morning After Optimism, The Sanctuary Lamp, Conversations on a Homecomnig, The Gigli Concert, Bailegangaire, Too Late for Logic, She Stoop s to Folly and The Wake. His career has been markedly associated with the Irish National Theatre (th e Abbey Theatre). He was born in Tuam, Co. Galway. He lives in Dublin.

Press Reviews

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

Murphy ... is among Irelamd's greatest living dramatists. Bailegangaire ... can only further enhance his reputation.

Sunday Herald

Murphy's writing has the emotional weight and the intellectual athleticism of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.

Sunday Herald
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