Far From The Land Contemporary Irish Plays [Paperback]

A startling collection of plays by playwrights working in the north and south of Ireland, all of which have been groundbreaking events in contemporary Irish theatre

At The Black Pig's Dykeby Vincent Woods depicts a group of mummers in the borderland between North and South, blending their rituals of death with the all-too-modern assassins going about their awful task; inHard To Believeby Conall Morrison an army intelligence agent for the British invokes his Protestant preacher grandfather and his turncoat father who married a Catholic and thereafter denied his background; inDisco Pigsby Enda Walsh two friends bonded in their fantasies and shared baby-talk face into Cork city on their seventeenth birthday;Frank Pig Says Helloby Patrick McCabe (Winner of the 1997 George Devine Award) is about the sullen meanness of a village community towards an innocently simple young man; inLanguage Rouletteby Daragh Carville a group of young people in Belfast come together for a reunion and the underlying atmosphere is anger and revenge;Bat The Father, Rabbit The Sonby Donal O'Kelly is a powerful personal story about the reversal of a father-son relationship where the son is envious of the father's unambitious expressiveness. Foreword by the award-winning Irish playwright, Sebastian Barry