The Mommo Plays: Brigit / Bailegangaire / a Thief of a Christmas

<p><b>Brigit</b><br><i><br>I'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.</i> </p><p>Set in the 1950s, <i>Brigit</i>, a prequel to Murphy's critically-acclaimed <i>Bailegangaire </i>(1985), tells the story of Mommo and Séamus, grandparents living on the breadline, who are raising three grandchildren: Mary, Dolly and Tom, when Séamus is offered a job to carve a statue of St Brigit. </p><p><i>Brigit </i>premiered in September 2014, in a production by Druid Theatre Company, Galway, Ireland. </p><p><b>Bailegangaire</b> </p><p>'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' <i>- Sunday Independent </i></p><p><b>A Thief of a Christmas </b></p><p>'Grand opera . . . both timeless and contemporary' - Fintan O'Toole</p>

• Play Anthologies The Mommo Plays: Brigit; Bailegangaire; A Thief of a Christmas, (Paperback)
• Author: Methuen Drama
• ISBN: 9781474218108
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2014-09-30
• Page Count: 208