Download or read book Owen McCafferty Plays 1 written by Owen McCafferty and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owen McCafferty's first collection brings together one short- and four full-length plays set in the author's home city of Belfast. Shoot The Crow 'Tragicomedy of character and circumstance that makes McCafferty look like a ribald Northern Irish Chekov.' Guardian. Scenes From The Big Picture 'An epic that attempts to put the whole of human life on stage - birth, death, love, sex, work, families - the whole damn thing... McCafferty offers us a wise and compassionate view of the human heart.' Telegraph Closing Time 'The existence of a writer as good as McCafferty induces a perverse, paradoxical hope.' Guardian Mojo Mikibo 'A razor sharp evocation of time and place.' Irish Times
Download or read book Owen McCafferty Plays written by Owen McCafferty and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Owen McCafferty Plays 2 written by Owen McCafferty and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Absence of Women'A fine example of theatre at its small-scale best.' Evening StandardTitanic'Owen McCafferty's rigorous verbatim play provides an antidote to Titanic fatigue... Two months of hearings from 97 witnesses are whittled down to nine... What remains, even after a century, is a disturbing sense of moral ambiguity: 1, 517 dead and no one to blame.' GuardianQuietly'Vibrates with a violent tension so taut that if you were a bystander... you'd hardly dare to breathe.' New York Times'Remarkable. inspired. The piece packs sweeping questions about forgiveness and accountability into a tightly plotted encounter.' Daily Telegraph'The most powerful theatrical production I have had the privilege of seeing... McCafferty's script is perfectly taut... This play is extraordinary and completely unmissable.' Metro HeraldUnfaithful'McCafferty excels with tight plotting and pithy, painful dialogue.' The Times'McCafferty writes with empathy and a wry humour that makes for an absorbing - if painful - hour.' Financial Times'Owen McCafferty is a sly observer of the human heart.' GuardianDeath of a Comedian'Despite the humour, McCafferty's play is a tragedy. his most accomplished work to date.' Belfast Telegraph
Download or read book Quietly written by Owen McCafferty and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belfast is a place where things need to be said. Following the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the guns were silenced but the chasm between the Republican and Unionist sides remains wide and bitter. Tonight, in a small back-street bar, while Northern Ireland plays Poland on the TV, Jimmy and Ian will meet for the first time. They share a violent past, and their conversation has been brewing for more than twenty years…
Download or read book Death of a Comedian written by Owen McCafferty and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: what if i'm not funny though - what if i go out there and i'm not funny Steve Johnston, guided and inspired by his girlfriend, is a small-time comedian, raw, original and true. Until he's spotted by an agent, who suggests he could be so much more: his act just needs to change. It's a Faustian pact. As tension builds over the course of four gigs, so too do the audiences. But at what cost? Death of a Comedian by Owen McCafferty premiered at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, in February 2015 in a co-production with the the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, and Soho Theatre, London.
Download or read book Mojo Mickybo written by Owen McCafferty and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mojo Mickybo - The waiting list - I won't dance - Don't ask me.
Download or read book Closing Time written by Owen McCafferty and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compassionate new play by rising Northern Irish writer.
Download or read book Scenes from the Big Picture written by Owen McCafferty and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic, 20-character play by an up-and-coming Irish writer.
Download or read book Owen Mccafferty Plays 2 written by Owen McCafferty and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owen McCafferty's second collection includes plays that span from the sinking of the Titanic to the lingering aftermath of the Troubles in twenty-first-century Belfast. Absence of Women 'A fine example of theatre at its small-scale best.' Evening Standard Titanic 'Owen McCafferty's rigorous verbatim play provides an antidote to Titanic fatigue... Two months of hearings from 97 witnesses are whittled down to nine... What remains, even after a century, is a disturbing sense of moral ambiguity: 1, 517 dead and no one to blame.' Guardian Quietly 'Vibrates with a violent tension so taut that if you were a bystander... you'd hardly dare to breathe.' New York Times 'Remarkable. inspired. The piece packs sweeping questions about forgiveness and accountability into a tightly plotted encounter.' Daily Telegraph 'The most powerful theatrical production I have had the privilege of seeing... McCafferty's script is perfectly taut... This play is extraordinary and completely unmissable.' Metro Herald Unfaithful 'McCafferty excels with tight plotting and pithy, painful dialogue.' The Times 'McCafferty writes with empathy and a wry humour that makes for an absorbing - if painful - hour.' Financial Times 'Owen McCafferty is a sly observer of the human heart.' Guardian Death of a Comedian 'Despite the humour, McCafferty's play is a tragedy. his most accomplished work to date.' Belfast Telegraph
Download or read book Fire Below written by Owen McCafferty and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: sit on the deck - have a few drinks put the world to rights - and watch working-class protestants burn some tyres and sticks and shout some shit - if that can't make a middle-class ex-catholic happy what canTwenty years on from the Belfast Peace Agreement, Tom and Maggie are enjoying a glass of wine or two on Gerry and Rosemary's deck, waiting for the Eleventh Night bonfire to be lit in the estate below. But there is tension in the air; and what these neighbours of old think of one another, truly, feels just one unguarded moment away on this hot summer's night.A companion piece to Owen McCafferty's play Quietly, Fire Below (A War of Words) was a co-production between the Lyric Theatre and the Abbey Theatre and premiered at the Lyric Belfast in association with the Belfast International Arts Festival in October 2017.
Download or read book Shoot the Crow written by Owen McCafferty and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sad and hilarious play about four Irish tilers on a building site.
Download or read book The Absence of Women written by Owen McCafferty and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - he hadn't forgotten i was there - he just didn't care whether i was there or not - it would've been better him forgetting rather than not caring at all Gerry and Iggy face the ends of their lives in a London hostel. As they drift from present concerns - the funeral of an old drinking partner, the relative sizes of their swollen livers, tube routes, street names, God and the lure of Belfast - to remembering ghosts from long ago, we catch a poignant glimpse of what might have been. Owen McCafferty's The Absence of Women, heartrending and darkly comic in turn, premiered at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, in February 2010.
Download or read book Unfaithful written by Owen McCafferty and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: we're still ourselves when we lieJoan and Tom have been married for nearly thirty years. Tara lies alone while Peter works nights. How far will people go to hear their heart beat again? What does it mean to be unfaithful to those you love?A stark and searing glimpse into two tangled relationships, the unspoken desires, the piercing regrets, and the postponed conversations.Owen McCafferty's Unfaithful premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in August 2014.
Download or read book Antigone written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient story by Sophocles' retold in a modern way by leading Irish playwright, Owen McCafferty.
Download or read book Agreement written by Owen McCafferty and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: what takes courage is to compete in the arena of democracy The clock is ticking. It's April 1998 and representatives of the British Government, the Irish Government and the main political parties in Northern Ireland try to hammer out a deal that could pave the way for peace. Every word, every movement, every stare means something. This is the last chance saloon and no one is leaving until agreement is reached, one way or another. In a major new play, Owen McCafferty examines the negotiations leading up to the Good Friday Agreement and weaves potent drama out of this complex, momentous, landmark event. Agreement opened at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, in March 2023.
Download or read book Hurricane Song written by Paul Volponi and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-06-12 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Miles's mother remarries, Miles decides to move to New Orleans to be with his father. But he and his father are very different—Miles's dad lives for jazz, while Miles's first love is football. Then Hurricane Katrina hits, and the two must seek refuge in the Superdome. What would normally be a dream come true for a football fan, this safe haven turns into a nightmare when the power fails and gangs take over. And when his father decides to rebel, Miles must make a choice that will alter their relationship—and their lives—forever.
Download or read book Sloppy Firsts written by Megan McCafferty and published by Broadway Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devastated when her best friend moves away, sixteen-year-old Jessica Darling feels isolated at school and at home, as she struggles to deal with her father's obsession with her track meets, her boy-crazy peers, and her own nonexistent love life.
