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By: Joe Vaněk
Publisher: Gandon Editions
Published: July 2015
Pages: 280
Categories: Art
Language: English
Available as: Hardback
On sale at: www.amazon.co.uk
ISBN-13: 9780946846825
ISBN: 0946846820

IRISH THEATRESCAPES is a large-format 280-page hardback book, with 680 illus, featuring 34 productions of new Irish plays, adapted European plays and Irish classics. Each play is comprehensively documented with dramatic production photographs, original design and costume drawings, author's essay, writer's/director's texts, and programme notes, making it an indispensable book for anyone interested in theatre in Ireland. The foreword is by Brian Friel, with contributions from 24 writers and directors: Geraldine Aron, John Banville, Michael Barker-Caven, Ben Barnes, Sebastian Barry, Marina Carr, Michael Colgan, Ingrid Craigie, Alan Gilsenan, Hugo Hamilton, Tom Kilroy, Fiach MacConghail, Frank McGuinness, Tom McIntyre, Patrick Mason and Annie Ryan. The featured plays are: NORTHERN STAR Stewart Parker DANCING AT LUGHNASA Brian Friel WONDERFUL TENNESSEE Brian Friel OBSERVE THE SONS OF ULSTER MARCHING TOWARDS THE SOMME Frank McGuinness THE ONLY TRUE HISTORY OF LIZZIE FINN Sebastian Barry LOVE IN THE TITLE Hugh Leonard DOLLY WEST'S KITCHEN Frank McGuinness BY THE BOG OF CATS Marina Carr WHAT HAPPENED BRIDGIE CLEARY Tom MacIntyre HAPPY DAYS Samuel Beckett INNOCENCE: THE LIFE OF CARAVAGGIO Frank McGuinness SAME OLD MOON Geraldine Aron MOLLY SWEENEY Brian Friel THE SECRET FALL OF CONSTANCE WILDE Tom Kilroy GATES OF GOLD Frank McGuinness THE BOOK OF EVIDENCE John Banville PERFORMANCES Brian Friel ARISTOCRATS Brian Friel THE SPECKLED PEOPLE Hugo Hamilton DUBLINERS James Joyce OEDIPUS William Butler Yeats PEER GYNT Frank McGuinness THE THREEPENNY OPERA Frank McGuinness THE BROKEN JUG John Banville THE SILVER TASSIE Mark-Anthony Turnage & Amanda Holden THE CHERRY ORCHARD Tom Murphy A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY Brian Friel MISS JULIE Frank McGuinness A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE Oscar Wilde THE RECRUITING OFFICER George Farquhar HEARTBREAK HOUSE George Bernard Shaw THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL Richard Brinsley Sheridan SAINT JOAN George Bernard THE RIVALS Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

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