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This second collection of Frank McGuinness contains his beautifully lyrical plays from 1989 to 1999. The Bird Sanctuary is published here for the first time. The collection also includes Mary and Lizzie, Someone Who''ll Watch Over Me and Dolly West''s Kitchen, and is introduced by the author.

Mary and Lizzie
''An extraordinary, outlandish script . . . Intriguing and sharply irreverent.'' Time Out

Someone Who''ll Watch Over Me
''Frank McGuinness''s brilliant play, Someone Who''ll Watch Over Me, not only penetrates the minds of three disparate man who fetch up as hostages in Lebanon, but also evokes a terrifyingly unnatural situation with remarkable conviction.'' Sunday Express

Dolly West''s Kitchen
''No play has ever looked into Ireland''s past and found there its future with the mix of wit and wisdom, death and despair, life and love, that characterises every line and every corner and

Trade Review
"Someone Who'll Watch Over Me: 'Frank McGuinness's sensitive, absorbing play'. The Times Dolly West's Kitchen: 'No play has ever looked into Ireland's past and found there its future with the mix of wit and wisdom, death and despair, life and love, that characterises every line and every corner and every moment of Dolly West's Kitchen'. Spectator

Frank McGuinness Plays 2

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      Publisher: Faber & Faber
      Publication Date: 04/03/2002
      ISBN13: 9780571212484, 978-0571212484
      ISBN10: 0571212484

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This second collection of Frank McGuinness contains his beautifully lyrical plays from 1989 to 1999. The Bird Sanctuary is published here for the first time. The collection also includes Mary and Lizzie, Someone Who''ll Watch Over Me and Dolly West''s Kitchen, and is introduced by the author.

      Mary and Lizzie
      ''An extraordinary, outlandish script . . . Intriguing and sharply irreverent.'' Time Out

      Someone Who''ll Watch Over Me
      ''Frank McGuinness''s brilliant play, Someone Who''ll Watch Over Me, not only penetrates the minds of three disparate man who fetch up as hostages in Lebanon, but also evokes a terrifyingly unnatural situation with remarkable conviction.'' Sunday Express

      Dolly West''s Kitchen
      ''No play has ever looked into Ireland''s past and found there its future with the mix of wit and wisdom, death and despair, life and love, that characterises every line and every corner and

      Trade Review
      "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me: 'Frank McGuinness's sensitive, absorbing play'. The Times Dolly West's Kitchen: 'No play has ever looked into Ireland's past and found there its future with the mix of wit and wisdom, death and despair, life and love, that characterises every line and every corner and every moment of Dolly West's Kitchen'. Spectator

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