Bøger af Seamus Finnegan

The Beautiful Nun demonstrates Finnegan's dramatic humanism with a sense of transcendence and mystery amidst the brutal landscapes of politics, religion, betrayal, and violence. Here is a voice compassionate when confronted with complexities, like Chekhov mixed with Marlowe or the Jacobean playwrights. The passion of a serious seeker underlies every word of the play, and a fierce Ulster realism breathes fire into the dialogue and the forensic openness of the play. This is art of great urgency, probing intensity, and crucial vision.

MRS BURNS'S BLACK RANGE is a stage play about a working class Catholic family from Belfast.It spans a period of over a hundred years from the late 19th century until the present.A War of Independence, two World Wars, the Spanish Civil War and the 'Troubles' all impact on the lives of the widowedMRS BURNS and her family.From Scene 5: MRS BURNS POKES THE FIRE IN THE BLACK RANGE.'This range has seem me through many's a thought and sorrow. There's nights when I just sit watching the flamesflutter and the embers dying into ash. It's a comfort. A friend. It's a kind of confessional box...'MCGLINCHEY & FLANNAGAN is a play about two bricklayers from Belfast and their adventures in wartime

'A hundred thousand welcomes!' But is the myth of open-hearted Ireland which her sons, daughters and visitors love, gone? Humour remains, sectarianism declines but racist violence is on the up - ask the new black priest Father Flannagan. As faith and idealism wane can Catholic Mary, Republican Dominic or Loyalist Derek still believe now, now, NOW?

BUCKSEY & YAP first appeared in ACT OF UNION (Soho Poly Theatre 1980) and then in SOLDIERS(Old Red Lion Theatre 1981). They changed their names to PATRICK AND JACOB in JAMES JOYCE & THE ISRAELITES (Lyric Theatre, London and First International Festival of Jewish Theatre, Tel Aviv. 1982).Now, they star in their own play - BUCKSEY & YAP - with the Dead.

After Paris is a set of dramatic variations on the themes of political violence (both establishment and anti-establishment), racism, and the role played by ideologies of difference in shaping the social, familial, and psychological mosaics of contemporary Europe. This volume also includes the French translation.

'Diaspora Jigs ingeniously gives the sense of two lives passing across the stage splashing in their puddle of dreams' TIME OUT'A bitter-sweet play which sparks drama from emotionally charged characters truly alive in their language' THE CRITICS