{"title":"Books by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781350517271","title":"Lie Low","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI was broken into a year ago and I was struggling for a bit afterwards. I’m fine now though.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the wake of a home invasion, Faye can’t sleep. She’s fine though. All she’s had to eat this week is a box of dry Rice Krispies. She’s fine though, really – she is…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDesperate to shake her insomnia, Faye enlists the help of her brother, Naoise, to try a form of exposure therapy. But Naoise has a devastating secret that’s about to come to light.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLie Low\u003c\/i\u003e is a dark new play from writer Ciara Elizabeth Smyth about fear, trauma and family, offering a theatrical exploration into the human brain and its response to sexual assault. This edition was published to coincide with the London premiere at the Royal Court, in May 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56297687023989,"sku":"9781350517271","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781350517271_c468927d-0e02-4ef7-b212-8039d26ab681.jpg?v=1786018371"},{"product_id":"9781350574311","title":"Irishtown","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWe could just \u003ci\u003edevise\u003c\/i\u003e an Irish play… How hard could it be?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Irishtown Players, a celebrated Dublin-based theatre company, have just started rehearsals for their new play. After the astounding success of their last production, the company are scheduled to open on Broadway with the same visionary playwright at the helm. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHowever, trouble arises when the actors decide she’s going too dark, too experimental, and… not Irish enough? Taking matters into their own hands, the company fights to restore the Hibernian flair. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIrishtown is a hilarious and searing new comedy that explores the commercialization of culture, inviting audiences to experience the fragile creative process and the potential collapse of a collective.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at Irish Rep in New York in April 2025.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56297939927413,"sku":"9781350574311","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781350574311_ec84c0e0-0a57-479c-b799-595f74a18927.jpg?v=1786018526"},{"product_id":"9781848429550","title":"SAUCE and All honey: Two Plays","description":"Two sweet and saucy comedies from an award-winning Irish playwright.   In SAUCE, Mella is a compulsive liar, Maura is a kleptomaniac – and neither has any friends. Recently out of controlling relationships, they are thrust into uneasy freedom. Can they overcome their flaws together to avoid dying alone? Or will their compulsions engulf them in the end?A play about death and rebirth, Ciara Elizabeth Smyth's SAUCE was first staged at Bewley's Café Theatre, Dublin, in 2019 as part of Dublin Fringe Festival, and revived there in 2022.   In All honey, Ru and Luke are throwing a house-warming party. But their guests are more interested in whispering in the box room than joining the festivities. Explosive characters and unfolding secrets mean the hosts will have to clean up more than red-wine stains and glitter.   Ciara Elizabeth Smyth's debut play, All honey is about sex, secrets and suspicion. It premiered at the New Theatre in 2017 as part of Dublin Fringe Festival, winning the 2017 Fishamble New Writing Award. It was revived at Bewley's in 2018 and Project Arts Centre in 2020.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308389151093,"sku":"9781848429550","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781848429550_f69eca11-daac-4f1b-b03a-1d02ad1bffb1.jpg?v=1786029537"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-ciara-elizabeth-smyth.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}