Beds
| By: | Anne Le Marquand Hartigan |
| Publisher: | Chiswick Books |
| Published: | July 2016 |
| Pages: | 146 |
| Categories: | Play |
| Language: | English |
| Available as: | Paperback |
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A threatre piece in two acts, Beds brings together mime, music and dialogue to explore Irish attitudes towards sex, marriage,love, death and sexual fantasy centring on the common theme of beds.
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