{"product_id":"9781849433914-the-oberon-anthology-of-contemporary-irish-plays","title":"The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary Irish Plays","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'This Is Just This. This Is Not Real. It's Just Money'\u003cbr\u003eA collection of plays from Irish playwrights displaying the best of contemporary Irish playwriting and drama INCLUDING:Grace Dyas, Mark O'Halloran, Lynda Radley, Phillip McMahon, Una McKevitt, Amy Conroy, Simon Doyle and Gavin Quinn \u0026amp;  Neil Watkins. Edited by Thomas Conway\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHEROIN \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eby Grace Dyas, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrade \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eby Mark O’Halloran, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Art of Swimming\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eby Lynda Radley, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePineapple \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eby Phillip McMahon, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eI\u003c\/i\u003e ? \u003ci\u003eAlice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e ? \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eI \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eby Amy Conroy, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Big Deal \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eedited by Una McKevitt, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOedipus Loves You \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eby Simon Doyle \u0026amp; Gavin Quinn, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Year of Magical Wanking\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e by Neil Watkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdited and introduced by Thomas Conway\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis anthology comprises eight new plays by Irish playwrights premièred between the years 2006 and 2011.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese playwrights ride, however, in no slipstream of the identifiably Irish play. Here, the enterprise of playwriting itself is being re-imagined. Here, above all else, is a commitment to becoming in the theatre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor all that, each play is concerned with what is unfinished business in Ireland. How astonishing, then, that these plays should revolve for the most part around identity and, in particular, sexual identity. How identity comes into play, how we open up the field of play, how we raise into collective experience the exercise of that play – the urgency in the playwriting would appear to lie precisely here.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe can read from the historical moment – from a narrative emphasizing an economic bubble and its hangover – into these plays. Or we can take these playwrights at their word and observe lives lived at the contour of identities in the making. It is for us as readers, just as we have as theatre-goers – frequently scandalized, enthralled, shamed, appalled, unburdened, tickled pink – to decide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55668218888566,"sku":"9781849433914","price":20.13,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_35083284.jpg?v=1751550584","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781849433914-the-oberon-anthology-of-contemporary-irish-plays","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}