Collected Plays Healy Dermot
Collected Plays Healy Dermot 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. Between 1985…
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Collected Plays Healy Dermot
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. Between 1985 and 2010 he wrote thirteen stage plays, including a critically-acclaimed adaptation of Garc a Lorca'sBlood Wedding in 1989. Healy's interest in drama was long-standing, and was central to his development as a writer.
One of the most striking features of Healy's dramatic works is their spirit of community collaboration and their strong social conscience. All of these plays are published here for the first time. His first play,Here and There andGoing 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