A whistle in the dark
Murphy, Thomas, 1935-201820011989
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Tom Murphy's early masterpiece, A Whistle in the Dark depicts the reunion of an Irish family in Coventy: a picture of Irishmen 'over here' asserting themselves in one of England's post-war dream cities. Michael Carney has left Mayo for Coventry, hoping to leave behind his homeland and his past with modest ambitions for a decent job and respectable family. However, he is relentlessly pursued by his past: a past that is both the flesh of his own family and the soured spirit of a haunted, marginalised people. With tragic inevitability, the impossibility of escape from his own dark history becomes all too obvious. Produced to a mixture of acclaim and notoriety by Theatre Royal, Stratford East in 1961, Whistle in the Dark is now regarded as a modern classic.
Príomhtheideal:
A whistle in the dark / by Tom Murphy
Inphrionta:
London : Methuen Drama, 2001
Leathanaigh in ord:
112 pages ; 20 cm.
Teideal sraithe:
Nótaí:
First published in 1970 by The Gallery Press, Dublin. Reprinted, with revisions, in 'Tom Murphy Plays: 4' in 1989 by Methuen Drama. This edition published in 2001 by Methuen Publishing Limited.This edition of A Whistle in the Dark has been re-published to coincide with the Abbey and Peacock Theatre's major season of plays by Tom Murphy held in October 2001.
ISBN:
9780413615008 (hardback)
Rangúchán Dewey:
822.914822/MUR
I dteanga:
English
BRN:
3780454