"This anthology offers the best new plays from Ireland's Abbey Theatre. In Hugh Leonard's "Love in the Title", a woman's visit to the Irish countryside leads to a surreal meeting with her own mother as a 30-year-old in 1964 and her grandmother as a 20-year-old in 1922. The frank exchanges that mark this meeting allow the women to remain in and represent their times, yet still communicate with each other. Frank McGuinness's "Dolly West's ..."
"This anthology offers the best new plays from Ireland's Abbey Theatre. In Hugh Leonard's "Love in the Title", a woman's visit to the Irish countryside leads to a surreal meeting with her own mother as a 30-year-old in 1964 and her grandmother as a 20-year-old in 1922. The frank exchanges that mark this meeting allow the women to remain in and represent their times, yet still communicate with each other. Frank McGuinness's "Dolly West's ..."
"2016 marks the centenary of the Easter Rising, known as "the poets' rebellion", for among their leaders were university scholars of English, history and Irish. The ill-fated revolt lasted six days and ended ignominiously with the rebels rounded up and their leaders sentenced to death. The signatories of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic must have known that the Rising would be crushed, must have dreaded the carnage and death, must ..."
"Christopher Hampton, David Hare, Tony Harrison, Frank McGuinness, Tom Stoppard Faber Drama have published some of the seminal plays of the 20th century. To celebrate Faber's 75th anniversary, the National Theatre invited five Faber playwrights to talk about their past work in a series of Platforms. Faber Playwrights at the National Theatre recalls their words in a special volume to be sold exclusively through the NT bookshop."
"For his latest body of work, Donald Teskey has cleared the decks. Gone is much of the pictorial paraphernalia familiar from earlier paintings: architectural scaffoldings in the form of tight networks of city streets, or, more recently, clusters of buildings around harbour walls. These essentially solid, sculptural frameworks are modelled by the fall of light. The combination of light and structure makes pathways for the viewer's eyes, o ..."
"This collection is a record of some of the most important performative ideas and embodied interventions that have shaped queer culture and theatre and performance practice in Ireland in recent times, principally in the years following the decriminalization of homosexuality in 1993, up to and including the present. The anthology includes plays, experimental performance documentation, and a visual essay that reveal the impassioned creativ ..."
The Irish Review No. 22 by Tom Dunne, FrankMcguinness Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 1998 by Cork University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-85918-190-4, ISBN: 1-85918-190-2
"If Brink's work represents the beginning of a backlash against Spenser and
Ireland, then the Irish University Review's special anniversary edition is an
appropriation of sorts. As the introduction explains, the journal's annual special
issue tradition is to celebrate the achievement of an Irish writer. Anne Fogarty's
introduction works hard to extend this function to an 'unsetding' author, eventually
finding cause to celebrate the ..."
"A collection of four plays by young Irish playwrights, including Marina Carr, who wrote "The Mai", and Jimmy Murphy, author of "Brothers of the Brush"."
The Wedding Breakfast by FrankMcguinness Hardcover, Published by Gallery Books ISBN-13: 978-1-911337-70-6, ISBN: 1-911337-70-X
Donegal (Paperback Or Softback) by FrankMcguinness Paperback, Published 2018 by Faber & Faber, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-0-571-33575-6, ISBN: 0-571-33575-6
Paprika by FrankMcguinness 224 Pages, Published 2018 by The O'brien Press Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-78849-069-6, ISBN: 1-78849-069-X
"my sight, and never dare breathe to man, beast, cloud or tree I let you say as
much as you have just inflicted upon me. ... I will circle the tree as you ask three
times, but I will make this Ave, wicker tree, wicker tree, hear my word, let me shit a
..."
"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 ..."
Donegal by FrankMcguinness 96 Pages, Published 2016 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-33576-3, ISBN: 0-571-33576-4
"Liza No – I don't, I'm afraid. Liam That's a pity, but sure who cares? I don't have
any wains anyway. How long are you staying? Liza That's up to Jack. Liam We
call him Jackie. Liza Jackie is really a girl's name in America. Liam Well, it's not
here. Hugo Jackie Kennedy, of course. And Bobby. Why oh why did he have to
die? Why, Bobby Kennedy, why? There was a song with that in it. Did Irene sing it
? Can't recall. It didn't explain ..."
"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 ..."
Arimathea(2nd Edition) by FrankMcguinness 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."
Thebans Opera in Three Acts, Libretto (Faber Edition) by Julian Anderson, FrankMcguinness Paperback, 4 Pages, Published 2015 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-53710-5, ISBN: 0-571-53710-3
"Thebans was commissioned by English National Opera with support from The Boltini Trust, PRS for Music Foundation, and ENO's Contemporary Opera Group. The first performance was given by English National Opera, conducted by Edward Gardner, in a production by Pierre Audi, at the London Coliseum, London, on 3 May 2014."
The Match Box by FrankMcguinness 96 Pages, Published 2014 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-29743-6, ISBN: 0-571-29743-9
"For Sal, they hang like a noose around her neck, just loose enough to keep a small but potent flame burning inside. A passionate story of love and hate, The Match Box by Frank McGuinness premiered at the Liverpool Playhouse in June 2012."