num_pages: 240
description: The second collection of plays from the multi-award winning author. Included in this volume is Conor McPherson's  , one of the most successful plays of recent years. In a bar in a remote part of Ireland, the local lads are swapping spooky stories to impress a young woman from Dublin newly moved into the area... 'A spellbinder that transfixes you... No praise in fact is too high'  Guardian  is set on Christmas Eve, when a Dublin undertaker is visited by his estranged daughter urging him to face up to the past. 'McPherson writes like a dream.... The play works an ingenious spell'  Daily Mail  tells of three interwoven a boy leaves home for the first time; a man starts a job for which he is unqualified; a pensioner is sent a mysterious package... 'Overwhelmingly poignant... desolate, searing eloquence'  Evening Standard And in  , published here for the first time, a Jesuit priest, sent to investigate a 'miracle' in his home town, re-encounters the woman who loved him thirty years before. 'Piercingly evocative, powerfully exploring the tension between human and divine love'  Daily Telegraph The volume also contains an Afterword by the author.
language: English
title: Mcpherson Plays: Two
titlecomplete: Mcpherson Plays: Two
genres: Plays
ratings_count: 22
publisher: Nick Hern Books