""One of the greatest Irish plays of the century" (Irish Times)"The language of the play is on a sort of inspired bender. It surfeits on its own potency. Tom Murphy's gift - here and in his other plays - is at once to stimulate and destabilise. It's a thrilling and intense experience to sit in a theatre and hardly to know where you are or that anything exists beyond the stage in front of you...This is a dark, funny, consuming evening of ..."
"Only an Apple is a lusty and disquieting play of an ailing playboy Taoiseach. On the brink of being overthrown by upstart Government Chief Whip McPhrunty, the Taoiseach must act fast. Enter surprise guests - Queen Elizabeth the First and Grace O'Malley. The brazen administrations of these fantasy creatures wreak havoc among the men. Are these women sexual playthings or more sinister messengers of fate? Only an Apple, takes us on a chara ..."
"(A perpetual diary, illustrated with hundreds of images from the archives of the Abbey Theatre. This volume carries an authoritative introduction by the writer Christopher Fitz-Simon)"
"A brand new comedy for the Abbey Theatre by the writer of About Adam and Ordinary DecentCriminal Irish builder and paid up Golden Circle member Noel and his ..."
"Ever since the Abbey Theatre opened in 1940 the collection of portraits on the walls of its foyer has steadily grown. In the beginning, as Yeats wrote, these were all by ""an Irish artist,"" actually his father, the painter J.B. Yeats, but the collection now includes portraits by several renowned Irish painters depicting the players, many of whom have achieved worldwide fame. In the 1940s Robinson described the collection in his charmin ..."