The Wexford Trilogy by Billy Roche
A modern Irish classic, telling three separate but related tales of small-town life in southern Ireland: A Handful of Stars, Poor Beast in the Rain and Belfry. Set in a snooker club, a betting shop and a local church, each play introduces a mix of young cornerboys, old cowboys and chancers of any age in a lyrical, poignant and often hilarious account of lost dreams and thwarted ambitions.'How many contemporary writers give us the feeling that O'Casey has been exhumed in order to set a Chekhov short story to dialogue?'
* The Times *'If you want to know about roots, change, loss, growth, camaraderie, alienation or any of a dozen pertinent topics you should see Roche's wonderfully ambivalent tales of a town that's simultaneously mean and warm, stifling and nourishing, comic and sadTogether, they make you redefine that elusive word: home'
* The Times *
Billy Roche is an Irish playwright, screenwriter and author. Born in Wexford, he worked as an actor and a singer before turning to writing in the 1980s. His plays include the acclaimed Wexford Trilogy, comprising A Handful of Stars (1988), Poor Beast in the Rain (1989) and Belfry (1990), which won him numerous awards in both Ireland and Britain. Other plays include: Amphibians (1992), The Cavalcaders (1993), On Such As We (2001) and Lay Me Down Softly (2008). His prose works include the novel Tumbling Down (1986) and the short story collection Tales From Rainwater Pond (2006). His work for the screen includes his IFTA-nominated, four-part TV series Clean Break, which premiered on RTE in 2015.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781854594716 |
| ISBN 10 | 1854594710 |
| Title | The Wexford Trilogy |
| Author | Billy Roche |
| Series | Nhb Modern Plays |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Nick Hern Books |
| Year published | 2000-11-24 |
| Number of pages | 92 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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