The Art of Billy Roche: Wexford as the World

ISBN-13: 9781788748315 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 268 str.

Kevin Kerrane

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Billy Roche - musician, actor, novelist, dramatist, screenwriter - is one of Ireland's most versatile talents. This anthology, the first comprehensive survey of Roche's work, focuses on his portrayal of one Irish town as a microcosm of human life itself, elemental and timeless.

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CONTENTS

Kevin Kerrane: Introduction - Billy Roche: A Handful of Stars: Act One, Scene 3 - Billy Roche: A Lucky Escape -Billy Roche in Conversation with Conor McPherson (excerpts) - Dominic Dromgoole: Billy Roche - Benedict Nightingale: A Weekend in Wexford - Colm Tóibín: The Talk of the Town - Conor McPherson: Reflections on the Muse - Patrick Burke: The White Goddesses: An Interview with Ingrid Craigie - Larry Kirwan: A Wexford Musician - Alexander McKee: Tumbling Down and Dubliners: Tales of Two Cities - Christopher Murray: Billy Roche's Wexford Trilogy: Space, Place, Critique - Belinda McKeon: Nearly Never Reaches: Male Friendship in the Wexford Trilogy - Martin W. Walsh: Harvest Fires and Angry Saints: Theatrical Appropriations of Celtic Festivals - Kevin Kerrane: The Cavalcaders: Billy Roche's Signature Play - Katherine Clarke: Trojan Eddie: The Power of Laughter and Degradation - Patrick Lonergan: 'Anything But Stand Still': Billy Roche's On Such As We - Úna Kealy: Stasis, Rootlessness and Violence in Lay Me Down Softly - Maureen Cech: Billy Roche's Secular Priests - Hilary Sophrin: A Strange Sort of Allure: Transformations of Wexford in Tales from Rainwater Pond - Billy Roche: A Bibliography.