{"product_id":"9781350542570","title":"Druid Theatre 1975-2025 : 50 Years of New Irish Plays by Dr Mairead Ni University of Galway Ireland Chroinin","description":"Marking the 50th anniversary of one of the world's leading  theatre companies, this book collects six of its most  impactful plays together in one volume for the first time. Druid Theatre is Ireland's leading theatre company. Since their  origin in 1975 they have surprised, delighted, and inspired  audiences worldwide, touring from their home city of  Galway in the west of Ireland to countless other locations  nationally and internationally. Under the leadership of Garry  Hynes, the first woman to win a Tony Award for directing, the company  has revitalised the Irish dramatic tradition by staging seminal  new plays and by breathing life into neglected classics. This  anthology celebrates that tradition by gathering together six key plays  from Druid's fifty-year history. Featuring an exciting blend of established and unjustly  forgotten playwrights this collection also provides insight  into the company's history. Edited by Barry Houlihan, Patrick  Lonergan, and M?ir?ad N? Chr?in?n, each play is  accompanied by a short introduction and production images  (many of them never published before) from Druid's archive  at the University of Galway. The plays include: The Wood of the Whispering by MJ Molloy Same Old Moon by Geraldine Aron Conversations on a Homecoming by Tom Murphy At the Black Pig's Dyke by Vincent Woods The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh The Beacon by Nancy Harris The selection of plays allows key themes from Druid's  history to be seen more clearly - to allow readers to  understand how the company has so fearlessly charted the  boundaries between the realistic and the fantastic, the past  and the present, and the individual and the wider society. It  also presents six plays that are of huge value in their own  right: these are original and daring dramas that have shaped  and defined a half-century of Irish playwriting.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56298137125237,"sku":"9781350542570","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781350542570.jpg?v=1762782510","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781350542570","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}