The Holyland - Softcover

Daragh Carville

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0413771563 ISBN 13: 9780413771568

Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

Programme text for the National Youth Theatre's production of Daragh Carville's latest play at the Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh, August 2001 English and Irish, students and the homeless, those looking for love and those trying to escape, drug addicts and a dodgy Velvet Underground tribute band all tell their stories as the sirens wails and the violence brews on New Year's Eve in the student area of Belfast, with its aptly named streets - Damascus, Jerusalem and Palestine.

About this title

About the Author:

Daragh Carville was born in Armagh in 1969 and educated there at St Patrick's College. He studied Dr ama and Film at the University of Kent, then lived and worked in Paris until 1994 before returning t o Ireland to complete an MA in Irish Writing at Queen's University, Belfast. His first play, Languag e Roulette (winner of the 1997 Stewart Parker New Playwright Award and the 1998 Meyer-Whitworth Priz e), premiered at the Tinderbox Theatre, Belfast, in 1996, and then transferred to the Bush Theatre, London, and the Traverse in Edinburgh. His second play, Dumped, also premiered at the Tinderbox and transferred to the Pleasance in Edinburgh, and his third, Observatory, premiered at the Peacock Thea tre, Dublin in 1999.

About this edition

• Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0413771563
• ISBN 13: 9780413771568
• Binding: Paperback