Book duration 180 pages
Conor McPherson Plays: Two
About the book
The second collection of plays from the multi-award winning author.Included in this volume is Conor McPherson's
The Weir, one of the most successful plays of recent years. In a bar in a remote part of Ireland, the local lads are swapping spooky stories to impress a young woman from Dublin newly moved into the area…
'A spellbinder that transfixes you… No praise in fact is too high'GuardianDublin Carolis set on Christmas Eve, when a Dublin undertaker is visited by his estranged daughter urging him to face up to the past.
'McPherson writes like a dream.... The play works an ingenious spell'Daily MailPort Authority tells of three interwoven lives: a boy leaves home for the first time; a man starts a job for which he is unqualified; a pensioner is sent a mysterious package…
'Overwhelmingly poignant… desolate, searing eloquence' Evening StandardAnd in
Come on Over, published here for the first time, a Jesuit priest, sent to investigate a 'miracle' in his home town, re-encounters the woman who loved him thirty years before.
'Piercingly evocative, powerfully exploring the tension between human and divine love' Daily TelegraphThe volume also contains an Afterword by the author.
