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A Skull in Connemara

Martin McDonagh author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:24th Jul '97

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Play comes from an award-winning author

The second in McDonagh's Connemara trilogy of plays. Mick Dowd is hired annually to disinter the bones in certain sections of his local cemetery, in order to make way for the new arrivals. As the time comes for him to dig up those of his own late wife, strange rumours also resurface.Winner 1996 Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright; Winner 1996 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright For one week each autumn, Mick Dowd is hired to disinter the bones in certain sections of his local cemetery, to make way for new arrivals. As the time approaches for him to dig up those of his own late wife, strange rumours regarding his involvement in her sudden death seven years ago gradually begin to resurface.

'[A] macabre little masterpiece... McDonagh disposes the elements of his play with a beautiful intricacy and his banter is bang up to date.' Lloyd Evans, Spectator, 27.6.09 This slice of Irish gothic isn't for the faint-hearted: with all the fecks and blood and smashing of skulls, it's a bit of an assault on the senses.' Robert Shore, Time Out London, 25.6.09

ISBN: 9780413719706

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 88g

96 pages