"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 ..."
"(William) Denis Johnston (18 June 1901 - 8 August 1984) was an Irish writer. Born in Dublin, he wrote mostly plays, but also works of literary criticism, a book-length biographical essay of Jonathan Swift, a memoir and an eccentric work of philosophy. He also worked as a war correspondent, and as both a radio and television producer for the BBC. His first play, The Old Lady Says No!, helped establish the worldwide reputation of the Dubl ..."
Stephen D by HughLeonard Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-237-49119-2, ISBN: 0-237-49119-2
Leonard's Year by HughLeonard Paperback, 128 Pages, Published by Canavaun Books ISBN-13: 978-0-907960-22-5, ISBN: 0-907960-22-7
Summer by HughLeonard Paperback, Published by Colin Smythe Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-86140-346-2, ISBN: 0-86140-346-0
Stephen D by HughLeonard Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-0-237-49120-8, ISBN: 0-237-49120-6
"Da" by HughLeonard Paperback, 102 Pages, Published 2017 by Samuel French ISBN-13: 978-0-573-60765-3, ISBN: 0-573-60765-6
"Even the odd time I do something right, it's not enough . . . it's always the least I
could do. Me da is different: if you ran into him with a motor car he'd thank you for
the lift. Drumm. I'm fond of him. Young Charlie. (Disbelieving.) Of me da? Drumm."
"This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the wo ..."
The Patrick Pearse Motel (Acting Edition S. ) by HughLeonard Paperback, 74 Pages, Published 2015 by Samuel French Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-573-01333-1, ISBN: 0-573-01333-0
Moving - A Play (Acting Edition S.) by HughLeonard Paperback, Published 2015 by Samuel French ISBN-13: 978-0-573-01837-4, ISBN: 0-573-01837-5
Suburb of Babylon Containing Time of Wolves and Tigers , Nothing Personal and Last of the Last of the Mohicans (Paperback) by HughLeonard Paperback, 76 Pages, Published 2015 by Samuel French ISBN-13: 978-0-573-11426-7, ISBN: 0-573-11426-9
A Wild People A Novel by HughLeonard 288 Pages, Published 2015 by Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-250-10655-1, ISBN: 1-250-10655-9
"This rich, mature novel follows a few years in the life of T. J. Quill, a middle-aged Dubliner trapped in a passionless marriage, who is soon lured into an affair with the voluptuous Josie, a woman he only half-understands."
Summer (Paperback) by HughLeonard, Olwen Wymark Paperback, Published 2015 by Samuel French ISBN-13: 978-0-573-11431-1, ISBN: 0-573-11431-5
Interiority Powered How to Use Your Inner Energies at Work by HughLeonard Paperback, 422 Pages, Published 2012 by Leonard Coaching, Training & Consulting ISBN-13: 978-0-9853415-0-3, ISBN: 0-9853415-0-5
"Is the Age of Interiority Upon Us? Interiority is an ancient word. As understood by St. Augustine (353-430 AD), Interiority is the exercise of coming to know oneself and God. St. Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274) referred to it as the dynamic structure of human intelligence, reflected in the desire to know all there is to know. Interiority in this book is about powerful inner resources that drive productivity and produce wholeness in everyone ..."
A Life by HughLeonard Paperback, 114 Pages, Published 2011 by Samuel French, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-573-61199-5, ISBN: 0-573-61199-8
"Full Length, Comedy Hugh Leonard Characters: 4 male, 4 female Unit set with combination interior set Those who loved Da will remember Drumm, young Charlie's employer. In A Life this intriguing character is at the end of his life and setting his emotional accounts in order. Two casts represent the young and the old Desmond Drumm, his simple and loving wife, and the one true love of his life, who rejected him for a lovable ne'er do well. ..."
Da (Methuen Drama Modern Plays) by HughLeonard, Bloomsbury Publishing Staff Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2009 by Methuen Drama ISBN-13: 978-0-413-77277-0, ISBN: 0-413-77277-2
"Hugh Leonard's classic play, reissued for a new season at Dublin's Abbey TheatreDublin, the 1960s. After Da's funeral, Charlie returns to his childhood home only to find his father's ghost stubbornly unwilling to leave the house or his son's mind. As the events of Charlie's youth and Da's troubled relationship with Mother are replayed, we discover the darkly comic, bittersweet relationship that existed between father and son."A beguilin ..."
A Devil for Grandeur by HughLeonard Hardcover, 226 Pages, Published 2007 by Methuen Publishing Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-413-77536-8, ISBN: 0-413-77536-4
"Leonard's sequel to the best-selling Home Before Night and Out After Dark sees him leave adolescence behind and rising to prominence in the Dublin theatre world of the 1960s and 1970s, a time which sees him produce many of the plays, novels ..."