Sacred Play: Soul – Journeys In Contemporary Irish Theatre

Author:  Anne F. O’Reilly

Publication Date 24th, July, 2004

ISBN 1-904505-07-4

Cost €25.00

 

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Theatre as a space or container for sacred play allows audiences to glimpse mystery and to experience transformation. This book charts how Irish playwrights negotiate the labyrinth of the Irish soul and shows how their plays contribute to a poetics of Irish culture that enables a new imagining. Playwrights discussed are: McGuinness, Murphy, Friel, Le Marquand Hartigan, Burke Brogan, Harding, Meehan, Carr, Parker, Devlin, and Barry.

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