Frank McGuinness Plays 1: Factory Girls; Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme; Innocence; Carthiginians; Baglady: "The Factory ... "Baglady" v. 1 (Faber Contemporary Classics)

Frank McGuinness

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571177409 ISBN 13: 9780571177400

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1996

[ FRANK MCGUINNESS PLAYS 1 FACTORY GIRLS, OBSERVE THE SONS OF ULSTER MARCHING TOWARDS THE SOMME, INNOCENCE, CARTHIGINIANS, BAGLADY "THE FACTORY GIRLS", "OBSERVE THE SONS OF ULSTER MARCHING TOWARDS THE SOMME", "INNOCENCE", "CARTHAGINIANS", "BAGLADY"BY MCGUINNESS, FRANK](AUTHOR)PAPERBACK

Book Description:

Frank McGuinness Plays 1 includes Factory Girls, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Innocence, Carthiginians and Baglady.

About the Author:

Frank McGuinness was born in Buncrana, Co. Donegal, and now lives in Dublin and lectures in English at University College Dublin. His plays include: The Factory Girls (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1982), Baglady (Abbey, 1985), Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Abbey, 1985; Hampstead Theatre, London, 1986), Innocence (Gate Theatre, Dublin, 1986), Carthaginians (Abbey, 1988; Hampstead, 1989), Mary and Lizzie (RSC, 1989), The Bread Man (Gate, 1991), Someone Who'll Watch Over Me (Hampstead, West End and Broadway, 1992), The Bird Sanctuary (Abbey, 1994), Mutabilitie (NT, 1997), Dolly West's Kitchen (Abbey, 1999; Old Vic, 2000), Gates of Gold (Gate, 2002), Speaking Like Magpies (Swan, Stratford, 2005), There Came a Gypsy Riding (Almeida, London, 2007), Greta Garbo Came to Donegal (Tricycle Theatre, London, 2010) and The Match Box (Liverpool Playhouse Studio, 2012).
His widely performed versions include Ibsen's Rosmersholm (1987), Peer Gynt (1988), Hedda Gabler (1994), A Doll's House (1997), The Lady from the Sea (2008) and John Gabriel Borkman (2010); Chekhov's Three Sisters (1990) and Uncle Vanya (1995); Lorca's Yerma (1987); Brecht's The Threepenny Opera (1991) and The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1997); Sophocles' Electra (1998) and Oedipus (2008); Ostrovsky's The Storm (1998); Strindberg's Miss Julie (2000); Euripides' Hecuba (2004) and Helen (2009); Racine's Phaedra (2006) and Tirso de Molina's Damned by Despair (2012).