Synopsis
A heart-warming play set in a small town in southern Ireland - from the award-winning writer of The Wexford Trilogy.
Oweney's barbershop, where the rooms to let above the shop offer refuge to a host of lonely hearts: a recently laid-off hotel night porter, an angry young artist, an orphan girl, a wounded old widower, a likeable bruiser and the beautiful Maeve. All of them in their various ways fall under Oweney's loving spell.
Billy Roche's play On Such As We was first staged at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2001.
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About the Author
Billy Roche is an Irish playwright, screenwriter and author. Born in Wexford, he worked as an actor and a singer before turning to writing in the 1980s.
His plays include the acclaimed Wexford Trilogy, comprising A Handful of Stars (1988), Poor Beast in the Rain (1989) and Belfry (1990), which won him numerous awards in both Ireland and Britain. Other plays include: Amphibians (1992), The Cavalcaders (1993), On Such As We (2001) and Lay Me Down Softly (2008).
His prose works include the novel Tumbling Down (1986) and the short story collection Tales From Rainwater Pond (2006).
His work for the screen includes his IFTA-nominated, four-part TV series Clean Break, which premiered on RTE in 2015.
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Paperback. Condition: New. A heart-warming play set in a small town in southern Ireland - from the award-winning writer of The Wexford Trilogy.Oweney's barbershop, where the rooms to let above the shop offer refuge to a host of lonely hearts: a recently laid-off hotel night porter, an angry young artist, an orphan girl, a wounded old widower, a likeable bruiser and the beautiful Maeve. All of them in their various ways fall under Oweney's loving spell.Billy Roche's play On Such As We was first staged at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2001. Seller Inventory # LU-9781854596710
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Paperback. Condition: New. A heart-warming play set in a small town in southern Ireland - from the award-winning writer of The Wexford Trilogy.Oweney's barbershop, where the rooms to let above the shop offer refuge to a host of lonely hearts: a recently laid-off hotel night porter, an angry young artist, an orphan girl, a wounded old widower, a likeable bruiser and the beautiful Maeve. All of them in their various ways fall under Oweney's loving spell.Billy Roche's play On Such As We was first staged at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2001. Seller Inventory # LU-9781854596710