Conor McPherson
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A 45-minute monologue from the multi-award winning author of The Weir.
Winner of the Stewart Parker Award.
Following the misfortunes of a petty criminal whose conscience beats him up when he becomes involved in a bungled kidnap.
'the writing is terse, lucid and admirably dispassionate' - Irish Times
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Duluth, Minnesota. 1934. A community living on a knife-edge. Lost and lonely people huddle together in the local guesthouse. The owner, Nick, owes more money than he can ever repay, his wife Elizabeth is losing her mind, and their daughter Marianne is carrying a child no one will account for. So when a preacher selling bibles and a boxer looking for a comeback turn up in the middle of the night, things spiral beyond the point of no return . . .
4) St Nicholas
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An eccentric, teasing yarn of a play from the multi-award winning author of The Weir.
A cynical and jaded drama critic falls for a beautiful young actress. In pursuing her, he meets a group of modern-day vampires who offer him eternal life - his part of the bargain is to feed their bloodlust.
'a delectably droll celebration of storytelling as striptease. McPherson's ear for detail is devastating' New York Times
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A poignant and gripping tale told through three interlinking monologues from the multi-award winning author of The Weir.
Three young men from a small seaside town near Dublin tell us in overlapping monologues of their inextricably linked lives and the eventful week which was to change things for good...
Winner of a Thames TV Award, a Guinness/National Theatre Ingenuity Award and the Meyer Whitworth Award.
'A touching, marvellously entertaining play...
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Conor McPherson is one of the leading figures in Irish contemporary drama. His look at life in a village pub, The Weir, was premiered in Dublin and then ran for over a year in the West End and Broadway. Port Authority was his next play. Three Dublin men of differing ages simply telling their stories to the audience. It is a spare document, but the wit, insight and pathos so skilfully woven by this major dramatist makes it unforgettable. A major recording...
7) The Eclipse
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In a seaside Irish town, Michael Farr, a teacher raising his two kids alone since his wife died two years earlier, begins to believe his house is haunted.
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Paula volume 3
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Mac tries to recover from the attack but faces fierce repercussions at work. Determinedly Mac continues to dig into James' past discovering that he had a troubling start to life. As if things couldn't get any worse for Paula she faced with the awful reali
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Paula volume 1
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Paula is a young chemistry teacher who is trying to end an affair with handsome P.E. Teacher Philip. As she tries to untangle from Philip, she is also trying to deal with a rat infestation in her basement, cope with her brother's alcoholism and her dysfun
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Paula volume 2
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Paula struggles to come to terms with Philip's death and Mac's superior seems determined to believe that it was suicide. Paula notices some things missing from her home and starts to believe that James was involved in Philip's death somehow, so she enlist
11) I Went Down
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Things are not going well for Git Hynes. Just out of jail, he has to accept the fact that his girlfriend has left him for his best friend, Anto. But when Anto gets into trouble with local crime boss Tom French, Git gets involved and finds himself owing French a debt. Repaying it involves an 'easy ride' down to Cork in a stolen car with an old-time criminal, Bunny, as his companion. But this is only the start of Git's involvement in a web of criminals...
12) The Actors
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Two failed actors decide to try to con a local gangster by pretending to be the people to whom he owes money.