"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 ..."
Arimathea(1stEdition) by FrankMcguinness 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"
Dulse(1stEdition) by FrankMcguinness Hardcover, 70 Pages, Published 2007 by The Gallery Press ISBN-13: 978-1-85235-438-1, ISBN: 1-85235-438-0
Dolly West's Kitchen(1stEdition) A Play (Faber Plays) by FrankMcguinness 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 ..."
"All hope seems lost until the sacred oracle speaks and replaces Electra's broken spirit with an unquenchable desire for justice and bloody vengeance."
"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 ..."
"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."