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- Title: Anthony Roche, Contemporary Irish Drama.
- Author : Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
- Release Date : January 22, 2011
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 324 KB
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Anthony Roche, Contemporary Irish Drama. Second Edition. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 292 pages. GBP 18.99 [pounds sterling]. Anthony Roche's Contemporary Irish Drama: From Beckett to McGuinness appeared in 1994, just as Irish theatre was entering an important new phase. In that year, Marina Carr set off in an intriguing new direction, abandoning the explicitly Beckettian style of her earlier work to give us The Mai, the first of her midlands tragedies. At around the same time, Conor McPherson, who had been producing his own plays at fringe venues around Dublin, was just starting to attract the attention of producers in Britain. Meanwhile, in a London bedroom, a young writer called Martin McDonagh had just dashed off seven plays in quick succession--six of them set in Ireland, and most of them destined for unprecedented international success. And while these events were getting underway, many established writers--Brian Friel, Tom Murphy, Thomas Kilroy, Sebastian Barry, Frank McGuinness, and others--were preparing significant new plays for production.