The Wexford Trilogy

The Wexford Trilogy

Author: Billy Roche

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780822219149

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THE STORIES: A HANDFUL OF STARS. Set in a local dilapidated snooker hall, A HANDFUL OF STARS tells the story of Jimmy Brady, a young Wexford tearaway who refuses to abide by the rules and regulations that are applied in this so-called man's world,


The Book of Evidence

The Book of Evidence

Author: John Banville

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2012-03-07

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0307817121

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John Banville’s stunning powers of mimicry are brilliantly on display in this engrossing novel, the darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer. Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt comes due and his wife and child are held as collateral, he returns to Ireland to secure funds. That pursuit leads to murder. And here is his attempt to present evidence, not of his innocence, but of his life, of the events that lead to the murder he committed because he could. Like a hero out of Nabokov or Camus, Montgomery is a chillingly articulate, self-aware, and amoral being, whose humanity is painfully on display.


On Such as We

On Such as We

Author: Billy Roche

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9781854596710

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A heart-warming new play from the author of The Wexford Trilogy and Cavalcaders.


The Cavalcaders ; And, Amphibians

The Cavalcaders ; And, Amphibians

Author: Billy Roche

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781854594631

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Amphibians: Cast gender - mixed; number - 8 males, 3 females (total 9); size - medium; length - 2 acts. Drama about an Irish fisherman and his son.


Lay Me Down Softly

Lay Me Down Softly

Author: Billy Roche

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 2014-08-25

Total Pages: 61

ISBN-13: 0822230267

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Set in rural Ireland in 1962, LAY ME DOWN SOFTLY takes us into the burlesque world of the boxing booth of Delaney's Travelling Roadshow, affectionately known as "The Academy". We dip down the shadowy, ropey avenues to the sound of the churning calliope, where we encounter the play's cast of dangerous characters: Theo, the charismatic, jealous, and violent ringmaster; his Carmen-esque lover, Lily; Peadas, Theo’s old, tired and not-so-trusted sidekick; the vain and boastful prize-fighter Dean; and the limping, Adonis-like Junior. Into this world comes Emer, a wounded waif of a girl who has come in search of her long-lost father. Her presence and the arrival of a professional boxer threaten to upset the already shaky equilibrium.


The Cavalcaders

The Cavalcaders

Author: Billy Roche

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 0822219131

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...[a] lovely and hauntingly original family drama...a work that breathes so much life into the theater. --Time Out NY. ...[a] delicate visual feast...When theatergoers talk about a play as a religious experience, they usually just mean that it had charismatic


A Handful of Stars

A Handful of Stars

Author: Billy Roche

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781848423992

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Billy Roche's classic Irish drama, recently revived 25 years after its world premiere.


Nora Webster

Nora Webster

Author: Colm Toibin

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-10-07

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1439149852

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From one of contemporary literature’s bestselling, critically acclaimed, and beloved authors: a “luminous” novel (Jennifer Egan, The New York Times Book Review) about a fiercely compelling young widow navigating grief, fear, and longing, and finding her own voice—“heartrendingly transcendant” (The New York Times, Janet Maslin). Set in Wexford, Ireland, Colm Tóibín’s magnificent seventh novel introduces the formidable, memorable, and deeply moving Nora Webster. Widowed at forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born. And now she fears she may be sucked back into it. Wounded, selfish, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny community where everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and blind to the suffering of her young sons, who have lost their father. Yet she has moments of stunning insight and empathy, and when she begins to sing again, after decades, she finds solace, engagement, a haven—herself. Nora Webster “may actually be a perfect work of fiction” (Los Angeles Times), by a “beautiful and daring” writer (The New York Times Book Review) at the zenith of his career, able to “sneak up on readers and capture their imaginations” (USA TODAY). “Miraculous...Tóibín portrays Nora with tremendous sympathy and understanding” (Ron Charles, The Washington Post).


Amphibians

Amphibians

Author: Billy Roche

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9780822219125

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THE STORY: Inspired by the biblical story of Isaac, AMPHIBIANS is a dark, elegiac tale of the sea. Eagle, the last fisherman on the river, is about to give up the ghost and go to work in the soulless Menapia Seafood Plant. Before he does, though, h


Doctor Copernicus

Doctor Copernicus

Author: John Banville

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2012-03-14

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 030781713X

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From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a novel set in sixteenth-century Europe about an obscure cleric who is preparing a theory that will shatter the medieval view of the universe—while being haunted by his malevolent brother and threatened by the conspiracies raging around him and his ideas. Sixteenth-century Europe is teeming with change and controversy: wars are being waged by princes and bishops and the repercussions of Luther are being felt through a convulsing Germany. In a remote corner of Poland a modest canon is practicing medicine and studying the heavens, preparing a theory that will shatter the medieval view of the universe. In this astonishing work of historical imagination, John Banville offers a vivid portrait of a man of painful reticence. For, in a world that is equal parts splendor and barbarism, an obscure cleric who seeks “the secret music of the universe” poses a most devastating threat.