Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme was revived by the Abbey Theatre, Dublin in 1994 as part of an acknowledgement of the peace process. The production was subsequently taken to the Edinburgh Festival in 1995 and opened at the Royal Shakespeare Company's Barbican Theatre, London, in March 1996.

Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme: A Play

Literature & Fiction

McGuinness, Frank

Dramas & Plays

Faber&Faber

Innocence: The Life and Death of Michelangelo Merisi, Caravaggio

An Englishman, an Irishman and an American are locked up together in a cell in the Middle East. As victims of political action, powerless to initiate change, what can they do? How do they live and survive?
Frank McGuinness's new play, introduced by Brian Keenan, explores the daily crisis endured by hostages whose strength comes from communication, both subtle and mundane, from humor, wit and faith.

Someone Who'll Watch Over Me: A Play

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Set in Ireland in the sixteenth century, Mutabilitie explores the area where myth meets and transforms reality and where the harshness of life is transmuted into hope by the chance meeting of a poet and a playwright.

Mutabilitie

Faber Paperbacks

Locked into a bloody cycle of murder and reprisal, Electra, haunted by her father's assassination, is consumed by grief and a thirst for vengeance. When her brother Orestes at last returns, she urges him to a savage and terrifying conclusion. Frank McGuinness's charged adaptation of Sophocles' powerful tragedy was first performed at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 1997 and was revived at the Old Vic, London, in 2014.

Electra

Sophocles and Frank McGuinness

It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal, where the living is anything but easy. The five Mundy sisters and seven-year-old Michael, the child of the youngest sister, form a tightly knit and proud family community just outside the village of Ballybeg. When their gentle brother Jack, a missionary priest in Africa, returns after twenty five years, it is clear that all is not well. And then Gerry, Michael's itinerant father, arrives after a two-year absence. Loved by one sister and coveted by another, Gerry's presence unsettles the family.Frank McGuinness's screenplay of Brian Friel's play evokes the interior landscape of a group of human beings trapped in their domestic environment and offers a commentary on the wider landscape, interior and exterior, Christian and Pagan, to which they are intrinsically related.

Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa: Screenplay

Humor & Entertainment

FRIEL, Brian

Movies

Two volumes from the Irish playwright Frank McGuinness: a major play on love, family, and war as well as stunning translations of two classicsSet in Buncrana, County Donegal, Ireland, during World War II, Dolly West's Kitchen is centered on a family struggling to come to terms not only with the effects of war on their country and their family but also with their own inability to respond to one another as situations -- and they themselves -- change. As the characters talk of love, sex, war, the English, de Valera, and the Yanks, Dolly West's Kitchen becomes a deeply moving evocation of the fantasy and the reality that was Ireland in the 1940s, filled with the richness of character and sense of place that have always marked Frank McGuinness's writing.

Dolly West's Kitchen

Frank McGuinness

Children, lead this old woman outside.A slave like the rest of you,She once was your queen.Troy has fallen to the Greeks, and Hecuba, its beloved queen, is widowed and enslaved. She mourns her great city and the death of her husband, but when fresh horrors emerge, her grief turns to rage and a lust for revenge.A savage indictment of the devastation of war, Hecuba is brought to life in this thrillingly visceral new version.Hecuba premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London in September 2004.

Hecuba

Faber and Faber

There Came a Gypsy Riding

Damned by Despair

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