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About the book
Late-night taxis, teen discos, home nurses, Jewish launderettes, vigilantes, babies, immigrants, seagulls.
Citysong is a play, a poem and a chorus of voices showing three generations of a Dublin family on one day.Intimate and sweeping, joyous and ridiculous, it's modern-day Dublin's
Under Milk Wood via
Metamorphoses (not the book about the cockroach). It's different things at different times, which makes sense seeing as it's about change.Carys D. Coburn's
Citysong was winner of the 2017 Verity Bargate Award, and premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in May 2019, before transferring to Soho Theatre, London.The author was named Most Promising New Playwright at the 2020 Off-West End Theatre Awards for
Citysong.This edition also contains the plays
Boys and Girls, which won the Fishamble Best New Writing Award at the Dublin Fringe and was nominated for the Stewart Parker Trust Award, and
Drawing Crosses on a Dusty Windowpane.