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The Mommo Plays: Brigit; Bailegangaire; A Thief of a Christmas
Contributor(s): Murphy, Tom (Author)
ISBN: 1474218105     ISBN-13: 9781474218108
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
OUR PRICE:   $29.40  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 822.914
Series: Play Anthologies
Physical Information: 0.43" H x 5.06" W x 7.81" (0.45 lbs) 208 pages
 
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Brigit

I'd like it to be perfect . . . Beautiful . . . The statue . . . Unbeatable? . . . I'd like it to be what I feel . . . And I don't know what that is.

Set in the 1950s, Brigit, a prequel to Murphy's critically-acclaimed Bailegangaire (1985), tells the story of Mommo and Séamus, grandparents living on the breadline, who are raising three grandchildren: Mary, Dolly and Tom, when Séamus is offered a job to carve a statue of St Brigit.

Brigit premiered in September 2014, in a production by Druid Theatre Company, Galway, Ireland.

Bailegangaire

'One of the finest and most inventive pieces of Irish dramatic writing ever - the power of its language soaring beyond the loftiest aspirations of Synge and its insights on the human spirit cutting deeper than O'Casey's' - Sunday Independent

A Thief of a Christmas

'Grand opera . . . both timeless and contemporary' - Fintan O'Toole