Drama English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Emma Donoghue: Selected Plays
- Publisher
- Theatre Communications Group
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2015
- Category
- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781783192120
- Publish Date
- Sep 2015
- List Price
- $42.95
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Description
The first collection of plays from acclaimed Irish novelist Emma Donoghue, author of the best-selling novelsRoom(finalist for the Man Booker Prize) andFrog Music. This book collects five of Donoghue's plays:Kissing the Witch,Don't Die Wondering,Trespasses,Ladies and Gentlemen,andI Know My Own Heart.
About the author
EMMA DONOGHUE was born in Dublin and lived in England for many years before moving to Canada. She writes in many genres, including theatre, radio drama and literary history, but is best known for her fiction, both historical (Slammerkin, The Sealed Letter, Astray, Frog Music) and contemporary (Stir-Fry, Hood, Landing, Touchy Subjects). Her seventh novel, Room, won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Canada and the Caribbean region) and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes. It sold more than two million copies. Donoghue scripted the film adaptation, a Canadian-Irish film by Lenny Abrahamson starring Brie Larson, which was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. And her most recent novel, The Wonder, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2016.
