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Bailegangaire (Modern Plays)

by Tom Murphy

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A major play from a major Irish playwright Bailegangaire is as complex and haunting as one of Yeats' later poems . A senile bedridden old woman rehearses over and over again an epic tale of a village laughing match . Meanwhile her two granddaughters struggle to release themselves from the prison of remembered unhappiness. Here is a potent allegory - of the need to exorcise the past and its myths if one is to be happy in the future.' (Sunday Telegraph)… (more)
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A major play from a major Irish playwright Bailegangaire is as complex and haunting as one of Yeats' later poems . A senile bedridden old woman rehearses over and over again an epic tale of a village laughing match . Meanwhile her two granddaughters struggle to release themselves from the prison of remembered unhappiness. Here is a potent allegory - of the need to exorcise the past and its myths if one is to be happy in the future.' (Sunday Telegraph)

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