{"product_id":"the-oberon-anthology-of-contemporary-irish-plays-this-is-just-this-this-is-not-real-its-just-money-9781849433914","title":"The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary Irish Plays:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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  Edited and introduced by Thomas Conway  This anthology comprises eight new plays by Irish playwrights premièred between the years 2006 and 2011.  These 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.  For 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.  We 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Introduction 7  HEROIN 15 by Grace Dyas  Trade 47 by Mark OA f Halloran  The Art of Swimming 83 by Lynda Radley  Pineapple 113 by Phillip McMahon  I oe Alice oe I 185 by Amy Conroy  The Big Deal 221 Edited by Una McKevitt  Oedipus Loves You 251 by Simon Doyle and Gavin Quinn  The Year of Magical Wanking 291 by Neil Watkins  Contributor Biographies 329\"","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043025682775,"sku":"9781849433914","price":23.51,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781849433914.jpg?v=1750956721","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-oberon-anthology-of-contemporary-irish-plays-this-is-just-this-this-is-not-real-its-just-money-9781849433914","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}