The holy ground
By: Dermot Bolger
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Description: A widow packs her deceased husband's papers into plastic bags and talks about her empty, silent life in Bolger's sad and powerful monologue. Monica married a young man called Swifty Hurley, who was shy and sweet, and loved soccer more than anything. But unable to cope with his inability to conceive a child, he becomes a right-wing conservative campaigner, leaving Monica to disappear into silence and fantasy. Now, after a funeral at which no-one knew who she was, Monica looks back at how their love came to a bitter end. 'The Holy Ground' was first staged (with 'In High Germany' as a double bill entitled 'The Tramway End') by the Gate Theatre, Dublin in 1990.
Notes: Originally published: in print in Plays one. London: Methuen Drama, 2000.