Bøger af Owen McCafferty

At 11.40pm on 14 April 1912, the RMS Titanic, on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, struck an iceberg. At 2.20am the following morning, the ship sank. 1,517 people died.In response to the disaster the British Government ordered an immediate inquiry and Lord Mersey was appointed commissioner. The British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry sat from 2 May to 3 July 1912. It took testimony from 97 witnesses.Owen McCafferty's Titanic retells the survivors' stories, using dialogue taken word-for-word from the hundred-year-old accounts. Full of intrigue, bravery and human frailty, this courtroom drama premiered in April 2012 as the inaugural production of the MAC, Belfast.

In a major new play, Owen McCafferty examines the negotiations leading up to the Good Friday Agreement.

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.' TelegraphClosing Time'The existence of a writer as good as McCafferty induces a perverse, paradoxical hope.' GuardianMojo Mikibo'A razor sharp evocation of time and place.' Irish Times

The tale of two boys growing up in Belfast in the early 1970s. Their friendship centres on playing headers, torturing a cantankerous old man, building huts, spitting from cinema balconies and re-enacting "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". The volume also contains two short monologues.

McCafferty's break-through play, a tender and comic portrait of love, dignity and emotional damage.

A comic portrait of how work gets in the way of life, this book tells the story of one Friday at the end of a long week for four Northern Irishmen on the scam. Ding-Ding wants a bucket to start his own window-cleaning business. Randolph dreams of escaping on a motorbike. They have a plan as to how to raise the cash.

The play takes place over the course of a hot summer's day in an imagined area of present-day Belfast. We see a day in the life of over 20 inhabitants in the district as their stories interweave and collide.

'Days of Wine and Roses' was a 1962 black and white movie directed by Blake Edwards and starring Jack Lemmon in his first 'dramatic' role as a young alcoholic who drags his much-loved wife with him into the swamp of addiction - from which eventually only he escapes.