New Plays from the Abbey Theatre: Volume Two, 1996-1998

New Plays from the Abbey Theatre: Volume Two, 1996-1998
ISBN-10
0815607237
ISBN-13
9780815607236
Category
Drama
Pages
258
Language
English
Published
2001-09-01
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Authors
Judy Friel, Sanford Sternlicht

Description

In Asylum! Asylum! Donal O'Kelly explores the mysteries and horrors of Irish Asylum Law (or the lack of it). With humor, compassion, and anger, O'Kelly presents the plight of an illegal African immigrant. Niall Williams's A Little Like Paradise depicts with hope and humor the regeneration of a small Western Irish town unknown to the European community and ignored by Dublin. The final play in the collection, Tom Mac Intyre's Sheep's Milk on the Boil is set on a remote island off the Irish coast.

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