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| Titre : | From Brigit to Bailegangaire : The Development of Tom Murphy's Mommo Trilogy (2016) |
| Auteurs : | Shaun RICHARDS, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Irish University Review (Vol 46 n 2 Autumn/Winter 2016) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 324-339 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | Tom Murphy's "Bailegangaire", premiered by Druid Theatre, Galway, in 1985 has its origins in a three-part TV drama which Murphy started planning in 1981. Of the three scripts only one, "Brigit", was screened by RTÉ in 1988, "The Contest" became "A Thief of a Christmas" which was staged by the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 1988, and "Mommo", the last of the projected trilogy, became "Bailegangaire". In 2014, nearly 30 years after its premiere, Druid staged "Bailegangaire" in tandem with "Brigit" which Murphy had reworked for the theatre, a pairing which, in bringing the fraught relationship of Mommo and her husband, Seamus, to the fore, helped clarify the grounds of the trauma informing her endless, but never completed narrative. This essay uses Murphy's notebooks and drafts, along with a comparison of "Brigit" in both its TV and theatre forms, to show how Murphy progressively refined "Bailegangaire" into a drama whose causal chain stretches back to psychological states forged under the stresses of the Irish Famine. |
| Pays de publication : | Grande-Bretagne (Royaume Uni) |
| Lieu de publication : | Edimbourg |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
