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The Sanctuary Lamp

Tom Murphy author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:15th Aug '01

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With "The Sanctuary Lamp" the author takes a hallowed institution and populates it with social misfits who desecrate every convention in both thought and action.

"The most important and controversial work to be mounted by the National Theatre for many a year" (Irish Times) The Sanctuary Lamp is set in a church. "Murphy, in the best traditions of Bunuel, takes a hallowed institution and populates it with social misfits who desecrate every convention in both thought and action...Murphy's savage indignation is unbearably true..." (Irish Times)

'Murphy, in the best traditions of Bunuel, takes a hallowed institution and populates it with social misfits who desecrate every convention in both thought and action... Murphy's savage indignation is unbearably true...' Irish Times

ISBN: 9780413771223

Dimensions: 178mm x 111mm x 4mm

Weight: 60g

64 pages

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