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Drum Belly

Richard Dormer author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:5th Apr '13

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Drum Belly is a fascinating new play about the Irish mafia in late 1960s' New York

This city is changing. Different world from when I was a boy. I came over here when I wasn’t much taller than you are now. Different world. You know what getting old is? Getting old is slowly losing everything that you’re familiar with. Man has just set foot on the moon. The streets of Brooklyn are tense. The Irish Mafia is desperately trying to hold on to their power and more importantly their identity. After all, they built these streets. In this edgy new story, relationships between family, friends and enemies are ultimately challenged. Hold tight as Drum Belly casts you into New York City’s deep and dark underworld.

Go[es] beyond the crime syndicate clichés and turn[s] a tightly plotted mystery into a meditation on the amorphous nature of national and cultural identity . . . Dormer’s razor sharp, telegraphic language is presented at times not as mere naturalistic dialogue, but almost as pure chorale rhythm . . . an extremely well-crafted play. -- Jesse Weaver * Irish Theatre Magazine *

ISBN: 9781472513731

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 113g

112 pages