Take Me Away by Gerald Murphy

Take Me Away by Gerald Murphy

A dark but very funny comedy about the collapse of a family of feckless chancers and no-hopers. Eddie and his three sons work nights. It could be said that they're a pretty dysfunctional family, but they don't care because they don't like each other very much. And when Eddie arranges for them all to pay a visit to their mother, the whole family starts to disintegrate in spectacular fashion. Gerald Murphy's play Take Me Away was first staged by Rough Magic at Project Arts Centre, Dublin, in February 2004, transferring to the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, during the 2004 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it won an Edinburgh Fringe First Award. It also won the 2005 Stewart Parker Award.

'Hugely entertaining and utterly convincing – when writing is as good as Take Me Away you're swept along'

* The Irish Examiner *

'Excellent'

* Guardian *

'A cracker, at once wildly funny and desperately bleak'

* Daily Telegraph *

'Ferociously funny – go and see it, and laugh till it hurts'

* The Times *

Gerald Murphy won an RTE award for a first radio play, Stranger in the Night, in 2001. In the same year Druid Theatre co. staged a reading of his first full-length play, The Welcome. His next, Take Me Away, was commissioned by Rough Magic and the Dublin Festival Fringe. It was adapted for radio and broadcast on RTE Radio One in 2002. Gerald has written episodes for RTE's long-running drama series Fair City and also works as a script development consultant for film and animation.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781854597977
ISBN 10	1854597973
Title	Take Me Away
Author	Gerald Murphy
Series	Nhb Modern Plays
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Nick Hern Books
Year published	2004-04-15
Number of pages	96
Prizes	Winner of Edinburgh Fringe First Award 2004, Winner of Stewart Parker Award 2005
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