by Dermot Healy

ISBN: 9781564789303

Published: 2016

Although Dermot Healy (1947-2014) is probably best known as an award-winning novelist and poet, he was also a prolific playwright, screenwriter, and actor. Healy's interest in drama was long-standing, and was central to his development as a writer. Between 1985 and 2010 he wrote thirteen stage plays, including a critically-acclaimed adaptation of García Lorca's Blood Wedding in 1989. All of these plays are published here for the first time. One of the most striking features of Healy's dramatic works is their spirit of community collaboration and their strong social conscience. His first play, Here and There and Going to America (1985), was performed by members of the Sligo Dole Q Company; Metagama (2004) was written for Theatre Hebrides on the Isle of Lewis; Serious (2005) was written in collaboration with (and performed by) prisoners from Castlerea Prison; A Night at the Disco (2006) was written in collaboration with the teachers and students of St Mary's Secondary School in...