The little gray home in the west
By: Margaretta D'Arcy and John Arden
Contributors: Arden, John, author; D'Arcy, Margaretta
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Description: 'The Little Gray Home' in the West was a reworking of a 1972 play 'The Ballygombeen Bequest', described as 'a freewheeling Brechtian parable of sickness, colonialism and capitalism in Ireland'. A play with songs, and a spoonful of cynicism, 'The Little Gray Home in the West' tells the story of a businessman named Baker-Fortescue who has come to inherit a small estate in the south of Ireland, a place where communications with the locals, and the security of fences, is forever on a knife's edge.
Notes: Previously issued in print: in Plays one. London: Methuen Drama, 2002.