Presents a collection of fifty-four monologues taken from plays written since 1980 that have been nominated for the Pullitzer Prize, the Tony and the Drama Desk Awards in New York, and the Evening Standard and Laurence Olivier Awards in London. This book also provides a range of audition pieces, which are arranged in age groups.
Mary Turley-McGrath's new collection is grounded in contemplations of her natural surroundings. Clearly aware of the darkness overshadowing the beauty of the natural world in our time, the poet confronts us with the full and paradoxical image of human experience.
A collection of some of the finest Irish and international poetry ever assembled in one volume featuring Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Medbh McGuckian, Brendan Kennelly, Paula Meehan, Theo Dorgan, John F. Deane and Derek Mahon
Serious, comic, brave, cowardly, engaged, disengaged, urgent, unurgent, chattering chiffchaff, talking horses, unpretentious, pretentious, all of God's creatures in Mark Waldron's fifth collection. Some of the poems give unfettered voice to Marcie, a character who has appeared in Mark Waldron's previous books.
In BEDBOUND a father and daughter share a small bed. He talks frantically about his past in furniture sales; she talks no less compulsively about anything at all. In "misterman" we enter the head of Thomas Magill, an unstable man whose mission is to bring God to his fellow townsfolk.
A collection of cutting-edge plays from award-winning Irish playwright Enda Walsh, author of Penelope, The New Electric Ballroom and The Walworth Farce.