"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 ..."
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 ..."
Fillums by HughLeonard Hardcover, Published 2004 by Methuen Publishing Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-413-77166-7, ISBN: 0-413-77166-0
"A cookbook with recipes and stories from L'Ecrivain restaurant in Dublin."
Fillums A Novel Leonard, Hugh by HughLeonard Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2005 by Methuen Publishing Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-413-77167-4, ISBN: 0-413-77167-9
"Perry loves the 'fillums', though the Hays Code still applies ('total nudity not permissible'), and good always triumphs over evil. That's the way Judge Garrity, with his mortal loathing for sins of the flesh, thinks it should be."