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Books by Frank Mcguinness
  | | Someone Who'll Watch Over Me A Play by Frank Mcguinness, Brian Keenan Paperback, 70 Pages, Published 1993 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-16804-0, ISBN: 0-571-16804-3 "by the same author SPEAKING LIKE MAGPIES GATES OF GOLD DOLLY WEST'S KITCHEN MARY AND LIZZIE SOMEONE WHO'LL WATCH OVER ME MUTABILITIE OBSERVE THE SONS OF ULSTER MARCHING TOWARDS THE SOMME FRANK MCGLTNNESS: PLAYS ONE (The Factory Girls, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Innocence, Carthaginians, Baglady) FRANK MCGUINNESS: PLAYS TWO (Mary and Lizzie, Someone Who' ll Watch Over Me, ..." |
 | | Sophocles' Electra by Frank Mcguinness Paperback, 60 Pages, Published 1997 by Samuel French Inc Plays ISBN-13: 978-0-573-62695-1, ISBN: 0-573-62695-2 "The Sophoclean classic: When King Agamemnon returns from the Trojan War with his new concubine, Cassandra, his wife Clytemnestra (who has taken Agamemnons cousin Aegisthus as a lover) kills them. Clytemnestra believes the murder was justified, since Agamemnon had sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia before the war, as commanded by the gods. Electra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, rescued her young, twin brother Orestes from her ..." |
 | | Donegal (Paperback Or Softback) by Frank Mcguinness Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2018 by Faber & Faber, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-0-571-33575-6, ISBN: 0-571-33575-6 |
 | | Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme by Frank Mcguinness Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2016 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-33325-7, ISBN: 0-571-33325-7 "On 1 July 1916, the 36th (Ulster) Division took part in one of the bloodiest battles in human history, the Battle of the Somme. This enduring war play is a powerful portrayal of mortality, love and loss. In the extraordinary circumstances of World War I, eight ordinary men arechanged, changed utterly. In 2016, one hundred years after the battle, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme by Frank McGuinness was revived in a c ..." |
 | | Miss Julie and The Stronger(1st Edition) Two Plays by August Strindberg, Frank Mcguinness, August Mcguinness, Frank Strindberg Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2002 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-571-20543-1, ISBN: 0-571-20543-7 "Frank McGuinness presents scintillating new versions of two of August Strindberg's plays -- one a major work, the other less well known. Miss Julie is Strindberg's examination of power, sex, and class, set on a midsummer's eve in a nobleman's house and focusing on the shifting relationship between Miss Julie, the daughter of the house, and Jean, her father's manservant. The Stronger is a short play that explores the complex range of emo ..." |
 | | The Woodcutter and his Family by Frank Mcguinness Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2017 by Brandon ISBN-13: 978-1-84717-907-4, ISBN: 1-84717-907-X "My son betrayed me. It is a family tradition.Didn’t I do the same to my father?The World War intensifies in Europe. In Zurich a writer breathes his last imagining his life till now from his childhood in Dublin.The voices of his family circling him – wife, son, daughter – carry him to his end as he hears each separate chapter chronicling the power of their passion for their famous father, their love, their hate, their need, their sorrows ..." |
 | | Dolly West's Kitchen(1st Edition) A Play (Faber Plays) by Frank Mcguinness Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2002 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-20370-3, ISBN: 0-571-20370-1 "Two volumes from the Irish playwright Frank McGuinness: a major play on love, family, and war as well as stunning translations of two classicsSet in Buncrana, County Donegal, Ireland, during World War II, Dolly West's Kitchen is centered on a family struggling to come to terms not only with the effects of war on their country and their family but also with their own inability to respond to one another as situations -- and they themselve ..." |
 | | Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme(1st Edition) A Play by Frank Mcguinness Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 1986 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-14611-6, ISBN: 0-571-14611-2 "Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme was revived by the Abbey Theatre, Dublin in 1994 as part of an acknowledgement of the peace process. The production was subsequently taken to the Edinburgh Festival in 1995 and opened at the Royal Shakespeare Company's Barbican Theatre, London, in March 1996." |
 | | Electra (Faber Plays) by Frank Mcguinness, Frank Mcguinness Sophocles, Francis Storr, Hugh Lloyd-Jones Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 1997 by Sophocles And Frank Mcguinness ISBN-13: 978-0-571-19452-0, ISBN: 0-571-19452-4 "Locked into a bloody cycle of murder and reprisal, Electra, haunted by her father's assassination, is consumed by grief and a thirst for vengeance. When her brother Orestes at last returns, she urges him to a savage and terrifying conclusion. Frank McGuinness's charged adaptation of Sophocles' powerful tragedy was first performed at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 1997 and was revived at the Old Vic, London, in 2014." |
 | | Arimathea(1st Edition) by Frank Mcguinness Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2013 by Brandon ISBN-13: 978-1-84717-578-6, ISBN: 1-84717-578-3 "It is 1950. Donegal. A land apart. Derry city is only fourteen miles away but too far, mentally, for people to travel there in comfort. Into this community comes Gianni, a painter from Italy" |
 | | Carthaginians and the Baglady by Frank Mcguinness Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1988 by Faber And Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-15131-8, ISBN: 0-571-15131-0 |
 | | The Caucasian Chalk Circle(8th Edition) (Modern Plays) by Bertolt Brecht, Frank Mcguinness, Tom Kuhn Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2010 by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama ISBN-13: 978-0-7136-8594-7, ISBN: 0-7136-8594-8 "A morality masterpiece, The Caucasian Chalk Circle powerfully demonstrates Brecht's pioneering theatrical techniques. This version by Frank McGuinness was published to coincide with the National Theatre's production which toured the Uk in 2007. A servant girl sacrifices everything to protect a child abandoned in the heat of civil war. Order restored, she is made to confront the boy's biological mother in a legal contest over who deserve ..." |
 | | Arimathea(2nd Edition) by Frank Mcguinness Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2015 by O'brien Press ISBN-13: 978-1-84717-766-7, ISBN: 1-84717-766-2 "In the 1940's an Italian painter comes to work in remote Ireland. Nothing and no-one is the same afterwards, changed forever by what he sees, by what he hears. A novel of many voices, of strong humor, and great passion." |
 | | Damned by Despair by Frank Mcguinness Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2012 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-29464-0, ISBN: 0-571-29464-2 "Sinner I am - pray for me. Damned by Despair, written in 1635 by the great Spanish dramatist Tirso de Molina, is brought to vivid life in Frank McGuinness's new version, whichopens at the National Theatre, London, in October 2012." |
 | | The Hanging Gardens by Frank Mcguinness Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2011 by Faber & Faber Plays ISBN-13: 978-0-571-27827-5, ISBN: 0-571-27827-2 "Now we have a family, a rivalry, a purpose. A writer and his wife sit together in their garden. They are surrounded by a lifetime's work; their home, their gardens and their children. Rachel wants to be congratulated on her pregnancy, Maurice is struggling for his father's acceptance and Charlie needs his sacrifices to be acknowledged. A crisis has drawn this family together but their honesty may pull them apart. The Hanging Gardens by ..." |
 | | Gates of Gold by Frank Mcguinness Paperback, 62 Pages, Published 2010 by Samuel French, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-573-69735-7, ISBN: 0-573-69735-3 "Drama / 3m, 2f / Interior Written by acclaimed Irish author Frank McGuinness, whose Someone Who'll Watch Over Me earned a Tony® Award nomination, Gates of Gold is an acerbic duel between two lovers, the fashionable and eloquent theatrical trailblazers who founded Dublin's Gate Theatre. Gates of Gold is witty and moving - a vibrant celebration of art, love, and finally, life itself. "Compelling! This endearing love letter of a play!" -Th ..." |
 | | There Came a Gypsy Riding (Paperback) by Frank Mcguinness Hardcover, 78 Pages, Published 2007 by Faber And Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-23303-8, ISBN: 0-571-23303-1 "The McKenna family gathers at their remote west of Ireland holiday home to mark the twenty-first birthday of their late son Gene.Cousin Bridget appears along the causeway, inviting herself for birthday cake and conversation, ready to expose ..." |
 | | Speaking Like Magpies (Paperback) by Frank Mcguinness Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2005 by Faber And Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-23081-5, ISBN: 0-571-23081-4 "Speaking Like Magpies, specially commissioned by the RSC as part of the Gunpowder Season to mark the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, brings to vibrant life the background to this notorious event in British history." |
 | | The Doll's House by Matthew J. Arlidge, Henrik Ibsen, Frank Mcguinness, Charlotte Barslund Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2001 by Faber And Faber ISBN-13: 978-1-4059-2060-5, ISBN: 1-4059-2060-2 "Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller The Doll's House is the new twisting and terrifying thriller in the Detective Inspector Helen Grace series from M.J. Arlidge. Arlidge is the author of Eeny Meeny and Pop Goes the Weasel, and has been dubbed 'the new Jo Nesbo'. 'Detective Inspector Helen Grace is one of the greatest heroes to come along in years.' Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author of The Skin Collector and Solitude Cre ..." |
 | | Mutabilitie by Frank Mcguinness Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 1997 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-19342-4, ISBN: 0-571-19342-0 "Set in Ireland in the sixteenth century, Mutabilitie explores the area where myth meets and transforms reality and where the harshness of life is transmuted into hope by the chance meeting of a poet and a playwright." |
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