Description
Book SynopsisMurphy Plays: 5 brings together four of the authors recent works: The Wake, Too Late for Logic, The House, and Alice Trilogy.
The Wake recounts the story of a woman, returning from the USA to her home town in Ireland. As her family learn of her years as a prostitute, she finds the drewam of her homecoming turning into a nightmare. A homecoming play that is haunting yet fiercely comic.
Too Late for Logic: A major new play...these scenes are beautifully imagined, ache with feeling, and flower into incidents of piercing sadness or absurd laughter (The Times)
The House: The most compelling indictment of emigration ever committed to the stage (Irish Times)
Table of Contents
The Wake; Too Late for Logic; The House; Alice Trilogy
