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FURTHER READING Plays and Scripts by Conor Mcpherson Plays FURTHER READING Plays and Scripts by Conor McPherson Plays Rum and Vodka, The Good Thief, This Lime Tree Bower and St Nicholas in Plays: One (London: Nick Hern Books, 2011) The Weir, Dublin Carol, Port Authority and Come On Over in Plays: Two (London: Nick Hern Books, 2004) Shining City, The Seafarer, The Birds, The Veil and The Dance of Death (an adaptation of August Strindberg’s play) in Plays: Three (London: Nick Hern Books, 2013) The Night Alive (London: Nick Hern Books, 2013) The Nest (an adaptation of Franz Xaver Kroetz’s play) (London: Nick Hern Books, 2016) Girl from the North Country (London: Nick Hern Books, 2017) Published Screenplays I Went Down: The Shooting Script (London: Nick Hern Books, 1997) Saltwater: The Shooting Script (London: Nick Hern Books, 2001) The Actors: The Shooting Script (London: Nick Hern Books, 2003) Films and Television I Went Down, 1997. (Treasure Films) Directed by Paddy Breathnach. Written by Conor McPherson Saltwater, 2000, (Treasure Films). Written and directed by Conor McPherson 1 Endgame, 2002, (Blue Angels Films) Part of Beckett on Film series. Disc 4, Directed by Conor McPherson The Actors, 2003, (Momentum Pictures) Story by Neil Jordan, written and directed by Conor McPherson The Eclipse, 2009, (Treasure Entertainment), Directed by Conor McPherson. Screenplay by Conor McPherson and Billy Roche, based on a story by Billy Roche Elegy for April, 2014, (BBC Northern Ireland and by Radio Telefís Éireann), based on novel by Benjamin Black, adapted by Conor McPherson and directed by Jim O’Hanlon Paula, 2017, (BBC Northern Ireland and by Radio Telefís Éireann), created and written by Conor McPherson, and directed by Alex Holmes Adaptations Dance of Death (Adaptation of August Strindberg’s play) in Plays: Three (London: Nick Hern Books, 2013) The Nest (Adaptation of Franz Xaver Kroetz’s play) (London: Nick Hern Books, 2016) Sample Articles and Other Publications by McPherson ‘Late Nights and Proclamations’, American Theatre. 4, April 1999, 16, 45-6. (Accessed 22/8/2017) ‘Old Ireland bad, new Ireland good’, Irish Times, 30 December 1999, 12, https://ucd.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search- proquest- com.ucd.idm.oclc.org/docview/526437924?accountid=14507, (Accessed 24/4/2018) ‘We are masters of illusion’, Irish Times, 23 May 2000, https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/we-are-masters-of-illusion- 1.274036 (Accessed 5/4/2018) ‘Original Sin’, The Guardian, 7 February 2001, https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2001/feb/07/artsfeatures.st age (Accessed 5/2/2018) 2 ‘Billy Roche in Conversation with Conor McPherson’, Theatre Talk: Voices of Irish Theatre Practitioners, edited by Lilian Chambers, Ger Fitzgibbon and Eamonn Jordan (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2001), 409-423. ‘The Pagan Landscape.’ Program Note, Abbey Theatre production of The Seafarer, 2008. ‘Reflections on the Muse’ in The Art of Billy Roche: Wexford as the World, edited by Kevin Kerrane (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2012), 69-76 ‘A journey into the unknown,’ Daily Telegraph, 27 September 2011. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre- features/8792604/The-Veil-at-the-National-Theatre-A-journey- into-the-unknown.html, (Accessed 21/11/2016) ‘The Weir Playwright Conor McPherson on the Art of Acting,’ Evening Standard, 7/1/2014, https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/theatre/the-weir- playwright-conor-mcpherson-on-the-art-of-acting-9043179.html (Accessed 11/3/2018) ‘Sleeve Note’, Original London Cast Recording of Girl from the North Country (Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited) 25 September 2017 McPherson: Newspaper Profiles, Reviews and Interviews Adams, Tim, ‘So There’s These Three Irishmen…’, The Observer, 4 February 2001, https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2001/feb/04/features.r eview27, (Accessed 29/1/2018) Appleyard, Brian, ‘Yes, Yes, Yes, It is Him Babe’, Sunday Times, 23 June 2017, Culture Section,10-11. Billington, Michael, ‘Dylan's songs are Depression-era dynamite’, The Guardian, 26 July 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/jul/27/girl-from-the- north-country-review-bob-dylan-conor-mcpherson, (Accessed 21/12/2017) Billington, Michael, ‘Review of Port Authority: Conor McPherson's cocaine and cardigans’, The Guardian, 24 February 2001, https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2001/feb/24/theatre.artsfeat ures1 (Accessed 25/11/2017) 3 Billington, Michael, ‘Review: Veil,’ The Guardian, 5 October 2011, http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/oct/05/the-veil- review (Accessed 3/3/2018) Billington, Michael, ‘Review: Alive’, The Guardian. 20 June 2013, https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/jun/20/the- night-alive- Review: (Accessed 5/11/2013). Blake Knox, Kirsty, ‘Conor McPherson set to push boundaries with new BBC thriller series Paula,’ Irish Independent, 21/05/2017, http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/conor- mcpherson-set-to-push-boundaries-with-new-bbc-thriller-series- paula-35731818.html (Accessed 15/10/2017) Bradshaw, Peter, ‘Review: Actors’, The Guardian, 16 May 2003, https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2003/may/16/artsfeatures8 , (Accessed 21/1/2018) Brantley, Ben, ‘St Nicholas: A Most Dramatic Drama Critic’, New York Times, 18 March 1998, http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/18/theater/theater-review-a- most-dramatic-drama-critic.html (Accessed 1/3/2108) Ben Brantley, ‘The Night Alive: Among the Debris, Something Divine’, New York Times, 12 December 2013, https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/13/theater/reviews/conor- mcphersons-the-night-alive-with-ciaran-hinds.html (Accessed 6/4/2018) Brantley, Ben, ‘Girl from the North Country: Rolling Stones Gather Regrets’, New York Times, 26 July 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/26/theater/girl-from-north- country-review-bob-dylan.html (Accessed 21/12/2017) Browne, David, ‘How a Bob Dylan Musical Finally Got Off the Ground’, Rollingstone, 3 September 2017, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/inside-bob-dylan- musical-girl-from-the-north-country-w502632 (Accessed 21/12/2017) Caro, Jason, ‘Review: The Actors’, Radio Times, http://www.radiotimes.com/film/k6j8j/the-actors/ (Accessed 21/1/2018) Carpenter, Julie, ‘Review - The Veil – National Theatre.’ The Express 6 October 2011, http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/theatre/275922/Review- The-Veil-National-Theatre-London, (Accessed 10/3/2018) 4 Costa, Maddy ‘Human beings are animals,’ The Guardian, 13 September 2006, http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2006/sep/13/theatre4 (Accessed 28/2/2018) Costa, Maddy, ‘Conor McPherson: drawing on supernatural resources,’ The Guardian, 28 September 2011, https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/sep/28/conor- mcpherson-interview (Accessed 2/3/2018) Crawley, Peter, ‘Reaching the next stage’, Irish Times, 5 January 2008, https://www.irishtimes.com/news/reaching-the- next-stage-1.926116, (Accessed 14/1/2018) Crawley, Peter, ‘Review: Paula’, Irish Times, 25 May 2017 http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/paula-review- set-in-dublin-filmed-in-belfast-everything-seems-slightly- uncanny-1.3095985 (Accessed 29/5/2017) Crawley, Peter, ‘Review: Paula: A TV show as promiscuous as its protagonist,’ Irish Times, 7 June 2107, 2017 http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/paula-review- set-in-dublin-filmed-in-belfast-everything-seems-slightly- uncanny-1.3095985, (Accessed 8/6/2017) Crosson, Sean, ‘Vanishing Point: An examination of some consequences of globalization for contemporary Irish film’, e- Keltoi, A Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies, Vol. 2, 2013, 8, http://vmserver14.nuigalway.ie/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10379/5 91/Vanishing%20Point%20article.pdf?sequence=1 (Accessed 1/8/2013) Csencsitz, Cassandra, ‘Conor McPherson Lifts the Veil,’ American Theatre, December 2007, 24.10, 36-39 and (continued) 80-83. Cummiskey, Breffni, ‘Conor McPherson on his new Bob Dylan- inspired play’, RTÉ Culture, 22 June 2017, https://www.rte.ie/culture/2017/0221/854275-conor/, (Accessed 21/12/2017) Curtis, Nick, ‘A Strange Enquiry’, Programme Note, Girl from the North Country, Old Vic Theatre, 25/7/2017 Dalton, Stephen, ‘Review: ‘Girl from the North Country’, Hollywoodreporter, 27 July 2017, http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/girl-from-north- country-theater-1024700 (Accessed 21/12/2017) 5 De Jongh, Nicholas, ‘Review: Port Authority’, Evening Standard, 23 February 2001, NPD. Fannin, Hilary, ‘The perfect work is always in the future, like a beautiful dream,’ Irish Times, 13 March 2010, https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/stage/the-perfect-work-is- always-in-the-future-like-a-beautiful-dream-1.637413 (Accessed 6/3/2018) Fanning, Dave in an interview with Conor McPherson, UCD Connections, November 2009, Part 6 (Parts 1-7), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwzUHtwgcbA (Accessed 4/06/2018) Fay, Liam, ‘A tale of two cities’ Sunday Times, Culture Section, Irish Edition, 28/5/2017, 16. Fisher, Philip, ‘Review: The Night Alive’, British Theatre Guide, http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/the-night-alive- donmar-warehous-8955, (Accessed 5/11/2013). Fricker, Karen, ‘Review: Three Short Plays’, The Guardian, 11 October 2001, https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2001/oct/11/theatre.artsfeatu res4 Guardian, (Accessed 14/1/2018) Healy, Patrick, ‘Hope doesn't come out of a bottle’, New York Times, 30 November 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/01/theater/conor-mcpherson- prepares-the-night-alive.html (Accessed 6/3/2018) Hemmings, Sarah, ‘The Ghost Writer’, Financial Times, 19 April 2013, https://www.ft.com/content/4678ee8c-a6ae-11e2-885b- 00144feabdc0 (Accessed 6/4/2018) Hemming, Sarah. ‘Review: The Night Alive’, 21 June 2013. FT.com, https://www.ft.com/content/a75d67a4-d995-11e2- bab1-00144feab7de. (Accessed 5/11/2013) Hoggard Liz, ‘Conor McPherson knows what women want,’ London Evening Standard, 13 September 2011, http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/-theatre/article-23986309-conor- mcpherson-knows-what-women-want.do (Accessed 18/11/2016) Hughes, Sarah, ‘Conor McPherson hits the mainstream with haunting drama and Dylan’s songbook’, The Observer, 14/5/2017, https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/may/13/conor- mcpherson-paula-bob-dylan-girl-from-the-north-country--old- vic (Accessed 1/6/2018) 6 Hunter, Charles, ‘Review: St Nicholas The Bush, London’, Irish Times, 12 March 1997, https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/st- nicholas-the-bush-london-1.51447 (Accessed 1/3/2018) Keating, Sara ‘Plays are stupid.
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