{"product_id":"the-mommo-plays-tom-murphy-9781474218108","title":"The Mommo Plays: Brigit; Bailegangaire; A Thief of a Christmas","description":"\u003cb\u003eBrigit\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI'd like it to be perfect . . . Beautiful . . . The statue . . . Unbeatable? . . . I'd like it to be what I feel . . . And I don't know what that is.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in the 1950s, \u003ci\u003eBrigit\u003c\/i\u003e, a prequel to Murphy's critically-acclaimed \u003ci\u003eBailegangaire \u003c\/i\u003e(1985), tells the story of Mommo and S饌mus, grandparents living on the breadline, who are raising three grandchildren: Mary, Dolly and Tom, when S饌mus is offered a job to carve a statue of St Brigit. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrigit \u003c\/i\u003epremiered in September 2014, in a production by Druid Theatre Company, Galway, Ireland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBailegangaire\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the finest and most inventive pieces of Irish dramatic writing ever - the power of its language soaring beyond the loftiest aspirations of Synge and its insights on the human spirit cutting deeper than O'Casey's' \u003ci\u003e- Sunday Independent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Thief of a Christmas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e'Grand opera . . . both timeless and contemporary' - Fintan O'Toole\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tom Murphy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474218105\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474218108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.43d","brand":"Tom Murphy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44123874296063,"sku":"9781474218108","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0b9ab7ec-9927-46c2-b2a9-64770a9b2571.jpg?v=1687433395","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-mommo-plays-tom-murphy-9781474218108","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}