‘The Death of Humpty Dumpty’, which was first presented in Dublin in 1979, is based on Graham Reid’s personal experience in a Belfast hospital.“Graham Reid has written a play about or around the Northern conflict which transcends all the political and humanitarian cliches which have been trotted out over the last decade. It takes a […]
1982 – “Blithe Spirit” by Noël Coward
Charles Condomine, a successful novelist, invites the medium Madame Arcati to his house so he can learn more about the occult for a novel he is writing. Unfortunately, Madame Arcati summons the ghost of Charles’ first wife Elvira without realising she did so. Elvira plots to get Charles to join her in the afterlife, but […]
1981 – “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” by Tennessee Williams
“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, which won a Pulitzer Prize, is a drama of the seething passions that beset a wealthy Southern family whose lives are stripped of pretense in a shattering moment of revelation.Gathered together in a piously hypocritical celebration of Big Daddy’s sixty-fifth birthday, the family’s conflicts are suddenly, relentlessly exposed in […]