{"product_id":"far-from-the-land-vincent-woods-9780413722706","title":"Far from the Land: Contemporary Irish Plays","description":"\u003cp\u003eA startling collection of plays by playwrights working in the north and south of Ireland, all of which have been groundbreaking events in contemporary Irish theatre \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt The Black Pig's Dyke\u003c\/i\u003e by Vincent Woods depicts a group of mummers in the borderland between North and South, blending their rituals of death with the all-too-modern assassins going about their awful task; in \u003ci\u003eHard To Believe\u003c\/i\u003e by Conall Morrison an army intelligence agent for the British invokes his Protestant preacher grandfather and his turncoat father who married a Catholic and thereafter denied his background; in \u003ci\u003eDisco Pigs\u003c\/i\u003e by Enda Walsh two friends bonded in their fantasies and shared baby-talk face into Cork city on their seventeenth birthday; \u003ci\u003eFrank Pig Says Hello\u003c\/i\u003e by Patrick McCabe (Winner of the 1997 George Devine Award) is about the sullen meanness of a village community towards an innocently simple young man; in\u003ci\u003e Language Roulette\u003c\/i\u003e by Daragh Carville a group of young people in Belfast come together for a reunion and the underlying atmosphere is anger and revenge;\u003ci\u003e Bat The Father, Rabbit The Son\u003c\/i\u003e by Donal O'Kelly is a powerful personal story about the reversal of a father-son relationship where the son is envious of the father's unambitious expressiveness. Foreword by the award-winning Irish playwright, Sebastian Barry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Conall Morrison, Daragh Carville, Donal O'Kelly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0413722708\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780413722706\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Berg 3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/05\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.22h x 5.08w x 0.89d","brand":"Conall Morrison","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44890579828991,"sku":"9780413722706","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_22b019e6-675e-47e6-8bef-6610091d64b9.jpg?v=1709739440","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/far-from-the-land-vincent-woods-9780413722706","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}