Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Conor McPherson is an award-winning Irish playwright. Educated at University College Dublin, he went on to found the Fly by Night Theatre Company, which produced several of his early plays. His best-known works include The Weir (Royal Court, winner of the 1999 Olivier Award for Best New Play), Dublin Carol (Altantic Theater Company, New York) and The Seafarer (National Theatre, also director). He has also written for film.
<p>'The finest dramatist of his generation... McPherson is back in business, writing magnificently'</p>
Daily Telegraph
<p>'Quiet, haunting and absolutely glorious... <em>Shining City</em> is as close to perfection as contemporary playwriting gets'</p>
New York Times
<p>'Moving, compassionate, ingenious and absolutely gripping ... scenes that provoke great, generous gales of laughter, others that send a shiver of fear down the spine ... riveting'</p>
Telegraph
<p>'Compulsively gripping... McPherson brilliantly reconciles the mundane and the metaphysical'</p>
Guardian
<p>'McPherson at his best, laying bare the soul in all its pathetic, flawed ordinariness'</p>
Evening Standard
<p>'Writing at its most riveting'</p>
The Times
<p>'At his best Conor McPherson is a writer who combines great character comedy with a real sense of pathos. And <em>Shining City</em> is Conor McPherson at his very best... Guilt, sex and therapy with a script from acting heaven'</p>
Daily Mail
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Conor McPherson is an award-winning Irish playwright. Educated at University College Dublin, he went on to found the Fly by Night Theatre Company, which produced several of his early plays. His best-known works include The Weir (Royal Court, winner of the 1999 Olivier Award for Best New Play), Dublin Carol (Altantic Theater Company, New York) and The Seafarer (National Theatre, also director). He has also written for film.