{
"item_title" : "Murphy Plays",
"item_author" : [" Tom Murphy", "Nicholas Grene "],
"item_description" : "Murphy Plays: 5 brings together four of the authors recent works: The Wake, Too Late for Logic, The House, and Alice Trilogy.The Wake recounts the story of a woman, returning from the USA to her home town in Ireland. As her family learn of her years as a prostitute, she finds the drewam of her homecoming turning into a nightmare. A homecoming play that is haunting yet fiercely comic. Too Late for Logic: A major new play...these scenes are beautifully imagined, ache with feeling, and flower into incidents of piercing sadness or absurd laughter (The Times) The House: The most compelling indictment of emigration ever committed to the stage (Irish Times) Alice Trilogy dramatises three stages in Alice's life: 1980, in the afternoon murk of her attic, is Alice losing her grip on reality? 1995, she has summoned a lost love to meet her by the gasworks wall. 2005, at the airport: if the worst has happened, why is it bearable?",
"item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/71/368/363/0713683635_b.jpg",
"price_data" : {
"retail_price" : "30.95", "online_price" : "30.95", "our_price" : "30.95", "club_price" : "30.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : ""
}
}
Murphy Plays : 5: The Wake; Too Late for Logic; The House; Alice Trilogy
by Tom Murphy and Nicholas Grene
Overview
Murphy Plays: 5 brings together four of the authors recent works: The Wake, Too Late for Logic, The House, and Alice Trilogy.
The Wake recounts the story of a woman, returning from the USA to her home town in Ireland. As her family learn of her years as a prostitute, she finds the drewam of her homecoming turning into a nightmare. A homecoming play that is haunting yet fiercely comic. Too Late for Logic: "A major new play...these scenes are beautifully imagined, ache with feeling, and flower into incidents of piercing sadness or absurd laughter" (The Times) The House: "The most compelling indictment of emigration ever committed to the stage" (Irish Times) Alice Trilogy dramatises three stages in Alice's life: 1980, in the afternoon murk of her attic, is Alice losing her grip on reality? 1995, she has summoned a lost love to meet her by the gasworks wall. 2005, at the airport: if the worst has happened, why is it bearable?This item is Non-Returnable
Customers Also Bought
Details
- ISBN-13: 9780713683639
- ISBN-10: 0713683635
- Publisher: Methuen Drama
- Publish Date: October 2006
- Dimensions: 7.74 x 5.32 x 0.92 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.69 pounds
- Page Count: 384
Related Categories
