FURTHER READING Plays and Scripts by Conor Mcpherson Plays

Home , Come On Over (play), Conor McPherson, Dublin Carol, I Went Down, Nick Hern Books, Port Authority (play)

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

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)

‘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)

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)

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)

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)

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. You are supposed to feel them in your bones’, Irish Times, 22 September 2015, http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/stage/conor-mcpherson- plays-are-stupid-you-are-supposed-to-feel-them-in-your-bones- 1.2360295 (Accessed 7/12/2015) Kinsella, Ana, ‘Hanging Tough’ Sunday Times, Culture Section, Irish Edition, 28 May 2017, 4-5. Maxwell, Dominic, ‘Girl from the North Country: why Conor McPherson is banking on Bob Dylan, the musical’, The Times, 4 July 2017, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/girl-from-the- north-country-why-conor-mcpherson-is-banking-on-bob-dylan- the-musical-0hj8q6q3p (Accessed 21/12/2017) McGinley, Nick, ‘Review: Three Short Plays’, RTE.ie 11/10/2001, https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2001/1011/449999- 3shortplays/ (Accessed 14/1/2018) McGinn, Caroline, ‘Interview’, an interview with Conor McPherson, Time Out, 26 Sep 2011, http://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/article/2782/interview- conor-mcpherson (Accessed 3/11/11) Nowlan, David, ‘Review: Dublin Carol’, Irish Times, 5 October 2000, http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/dublin-carol- 1.1105891 (Accessed 19 July 2017). Nowlan, David, ‘Honest, coarse and gripping This Lime Tree Bower,’ Irish Times, 10 September 1998, https://search.proquest.com/docview/310407805?pq- origsite=summon&accountid=14507 (Accessed 6/3/2018) O’Brien, Harvey, ‘Review: Saltwater’, http://homepage.eircom.net/~obrienh/saltw.htm (Accessed 21/1/2018) O’Kelly, Emer, ‘Review: Dublin Carol’, Sunday Independent, 8 October 2000, http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/a-barbaric- edge-to-comedy-26256700.html (Accessed 19/7/2017). O’Toole, Fintan, ‘Lost in the myths of time’ Irish Times, 30 September 2004, https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/lost-in-the- myths-of-time-1.1159789 (Accessed 28/2/2018)

Orange, B. Alan, ‘Ciaran Hinds and Conor McPherson Join Forces for The Eclipse’, http://www.movieweb.com/news/exclusive-ciaran-hinds-and- conor-mcpherson-join-forces-for-the-eclipse (Accessed 10/1/2017) Pierce, Nev, ‘Review: The Actors’, BBC Film Reviews, 14 May 2003, http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2003/05/05/the_actors_2003_review .shtml, (Accessed 20/1/2018) Shuttleworth, Ian, ‘Review: Girl from the North Country’, Financial Times, 27 July 2017, https://www.ft.com/content/b7829d0c-72bb-11e7-93ff- 99f383b09ff9, (Accessed 21/12/2017) Smith, Damon, Interview with Conor McPherson, ‘THE ECLIPSE’, 24 March 2010, http://filmmakermagazine.com/6213-conor-mcpherson-the- eclipse/ (Accessed 14/4/2015) Spencer, Charles, Review: St Nicholas ‘All booze and brilliant, bubbling bile,’ The Telegraph, 1 March 1997, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4707786/All-booze-and- brilliant-bubbling-bile.html (Accessed 1/3/2018) Spencer, Charles, ‘Review: The Night Alive’, The Telegraph, 20 Jun 2013, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre- reviews/10131865/The-Night-Alive-Donmar-Warehouse.html. (Accessed 2/3/2018). Spencer, Charles, ‘Review: 3 Plays’, The Telegraph, 8 October 2001, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/4179770/Theatre- Review-3-Plays-GATE-DUBLIN.html, (Accessed 14/1/2018) Stratton, David, ‘Review: Saltwater’, Variety, 5 March 2000, http://variety.com/2000/film/reviews/saltwater-1200461355/, (Accessed 21/1/2018) Taylor, Paul, ‘Review: St Nicholas: Don't make a drama out of a critic’, The Independent, 24/2/2017, http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/dont-make-a- drama-out-of-a-critic-1280430.html (Accessed 1/3/2018) Taylor, Paul, ‘Review: Girl from the North Country’, The Independent, 2 August 2017, http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre- dance/reviews/girl-from-the-north-country-old-vic-review- a7863891.html (Accessed 21/12/2017)

Warchus, Matthew, Programme Note, Girl, Old Vic Theatre, 31July 2017 Wolf, Matt, ‘Review: Port Authority’, Variety, 18 March 2001, http://variety.com/2001/legit/reviews/port-authority- 1200467264/, (Accessed 25/11/2017)

McPherson: General Profile and Criticism

Austin Hill, C., ‘Of Angels and Demons: Staging the Demise of Ireland’s “Celtic Tiger” through Supernatural Allegory’ in The Supernatural Revamped: From Timeworn Legends to Twenty- First-Century Chic, edited by Barbara Brodman, James E. Doan (Maryland: Farleigh Dickinson University Press., 2016), 3-18. Bragg, Melvyn South Bank Show Feature on McPherson, Season 26 Episode 15 18 May 2003 Cox, Brian, ‘The Loneliness, Elation and Doubts Of the Monologuist,’ New York Times, 16 May 1999, https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/16/theater/theater-the- loneliness-elation-and-doubts-of-the-monologuist.html (Accessed 5/4/2018) Cannon Harris, Susan, ‘Supernaturalism: Femininity and Form in Conor McPherson’s Paranormal Plays,’ Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies, 10 July 2014, https://breac.nd.edu/articles/48939-supernaturalism-femininity- and-form-in-conor-mcphersons-paranormal-plays/ (Accessed 18/11/2016) Chambers, Lilian, and Eamonn Jordan, eds., The Theatre of Conor McPherson: ‘Right Beside the Beyond’, (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2012), Cummings, Scott, T., ‘Homo Fabulator: The Narrative Imperative in Conor McPherson’s Plays’, in Theatre Stuff: Essays on Contemporary Irish Theatre, ed., Eamonn Jordan (Dublin, Carysfort Press, 2000), 303-12. Fitzpatrick, Lisa, ‘Representing Sexual Violence in the Early Plays of Conor McPherson’ in The Theatre of Conor McPherson, 61-76. Grene, Nicholas, ‘Stories in Shallow Space: Port Authority’, Irish Review 29 (Autumn 2002): 70-83.

Grene, Nicholas, ‘Ireland in Two Minds: Martin McDonagh and Conor McPherson,’ The Yearbook of English Studies, 35 (2005): 298-311 Hazucha, Andrew, ‘The Shannon Scheme, Rural Electrification, and Veiled History in Conor McPherson's The Weir,’ New Hibernia Review: 17.1, (Earrach/Spring 2013, 67-80. Jordan, Eamonn. ‘Pastoral Exhibits: Narrating Authenticity in Conor McPherson’s The Weir’, Irish University Review: 2004, 351-368. Jordan, Eamonn, ‘Look Who’s Talking, Too: The Duplicitous Myth of Naïve Narrative’ in Monologues: Theatre, Performance, Subjectivity edited by Clare Wallace (Prague: Litteraria Pragensia 2006). Jordan, Eamonn, ‘Para-Normal Views/Para-Gothic Activities in Conor McPherson’s The Veil’ in The Theatre of Conor McPherson, 252-274. Jordan, Eamonn, ‘Playwrights, Screenplays, Criminality, Gangland and the Tragicomic Imperatives in I Went Down and Intermission,’ in For the Sake of Sanity: Doing things with humour in Irish edited by Eric Weitz (Dublin: Carysfort Press 2014), 173-192. Jordan, Eamonn, (2014) ‘Respond Or Else: Conor McPherson’s The Weir at the Donmar Warehouse’. Irish Theatre International, 3 (1), 2014, 57-74. Jordan, Eamonn, ‘Black Hole Experiences: Moochers, Smoochers, Dig Outs and the Parables and Spasms of Time in Conor McPherson’s The Night Alive,’ in Donald. E. Morse (ed). Irish Theatre in Transition. (Basingstoke: Palgrave 2015), 33-53 Jordan, Eamonn. ‘Lapsed, Augmented and Eternal Christmases in the Theatre of Conor McPherson,’ Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, 2017, 51-72. Kerrane, Kevin, ‘The Structural Elegance of Conor McPherson’s The Weir’, New Hibernia Review: 10.4. (2006): 105-121. Kerrane, Kevin, ‘The Buoyancy of Conor McPherson’s Saltwater’ in The Theatre of Conor McPherson, 113-126. King, Greg, ‘Peat Fiction? Greg King Talks to Irish director Paddy Breathnach about I Went Down, the quirky new crime thriller from Ireland,’ The Reel Ring, December 1997 http://www.filmreviews.net.au/1997/12/i-went-down/ (Accessed 1/8/2013)

Lonergan, Patrick, “I Do Repent and Yet I Do Despair”: Beckettian and Faustian Allusions in Conor McPherson's The Seafarer and Mark O'Rowe's Terminus, ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 25:1, (2012), 24- 30, Mathews, P.J. ‘“The ‘sweet Smell; of the Celtic Tiger: Elegy and Critique in Conor McPherson’s The Weir’, in The Theatre of Conor McPherson, 151-164. Meads, Joy. ‘In the Paths of Exile: Guilt and Isolation in The Seafarer.’ Watch and Listen, 2008-2009. Vol 2, https://www.steppenwolf.org/articles/in-the-paths-of-exile-guilt- and-isolation-in-the-seafarer/ (Accessed 13 June 2016) Morin, Emilie, ‘The Celtic Tiger, its phantoms, and Conor McPherson's haunted rooms,’ Textual Practice 2014, Vol. 28:6, 1103-1122. Maguire, Tom, ‘Speaking Violence in Conor McPherson’s Rum and Vodka and The Good Thief,’ in Performing Violence in Contemporary Irish Theatre, edited by Lisa Fitzpatrick (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2010), 105-118. Murray, Christopher. ‘The Supernatural in Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer and The Birds,’ in The Binding Strength of Irish Studies. Festschrift in Honour of Csilla Bertha and Donald E. Morse, edited by Marianna Gula, Mária Kurdi, and István D. Rácz (Debrecen: Debrecen UP, 2011), 66-77. [Re-published in The Theatre of Conor McPherson, 197-214.] O’Brien, Cormac ‘The Afterlife of the Anti-Hero: Fantasies of Manhood and the Hierarchy of Masculine Agency in Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer, in Irish Masculinities: Reflections on Literature and Culture, edited by Caroline Magennis and Raymond Mullen (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2011), 162- 174. Pilný, Ondřej, ‘Mercy on the misfit: Continuity and Transformation in the Plays of Conor McPherson,’ in The Binding Strength of Irish Studies. Festschrift in Honour of Csilla Bertha and Donald E. Morse, edited by Marianna Gula, Mária Kurdi, and István D. Rácz (Debrecen: Debrecen UP, 2011), 87- 94. Pine, Emilie, ‘This is what I need you to do to make it right’: Conor McPherson’s I Went Down’ in The Theatre of Conor McPherson,103-112.

Roche, Anthony, ‘Interview with Conor McPherson: Ghosts and the Uncanny in Irish Drama,’ in The Irish Dramatic Revival:1899-1939. (London, Bloomsbury Methuen). Ruiz, Noelia, ‘Interview with Conor McPherson’, in The Theatre of Conor McPherson, 275-290. Scutt, Tom, ‘Designing The Weir’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciUfiTwzC60 (Access 5/4/2018) Shanley, John Patrick, ‘The Supernaturalism of the Everyday,’. American Theatre. Dec 2013, 30.10, 69, http://www.americantheatre.org/2015/02/23/conor-mcpherson- searches-for-god-in-the-night-alive/ (Accessed 12/3/2018) Smith, Rae, ‘Conor McPherson: Collaborations with,’ http://www.raesmith.co.uk/2016/01/20/conor-mcpherson/ (Accessed 22/8/2017). Szabo, Carmen, ‘Issues of Narrative, Storytelling and Performance in Conor McPherson’s The Actors’ in The Theatre of Conor McPherson 127-135. Taggart, Ashley, ‘“Stumbling around in the light”: Conor McPherson’s partial eclipse’ in The Theatre of Conor McPherson, 183-196. Trench, Rhona. ‘The Measure of a Pub Spirit in Conor McPherson’s The Weir’, in The Theatre of Conor McPherson, 165-182. Wallace, Clare, ‘A Micronarrative Imperative: Conor McPherson’s Monologue Dramas,’ Irish Studies Review: 14.1, (2006), 1-10. Wallace, Clare, ‘Conor McPherson’ in The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights, edited by Martin Middeke and Peter Paul Schnierer (London: Methuen, 2010), 271-289. Wallace, Clare, ‘The Art of Disclosure, the Ethics of Monologue in Conor McPherson’s Drama: St. Nicholas This Lime Tree Bower and Port Authority’ in The Theatre of Conor McPherson, 43-60. Wallace, Kevin, ‘“shame shame shame”: Masculinity, Intimacy and Narrative in Conor McPherson’s Shining City’, in The Theatre of Conor McPherson, 89-102.

Walsh, Fintan, ‘Review of The Birds’, Irish Theatre Magazine, 30 September 2009, http://itmarchive.ie/web/Reviews/Dublin- Theatre/The--Birds.html (Accessed 28/2/2018) Watson, Ariel, ‘Cries of Fire: Psychotherapy in Contemporary British and Irish Drama’, Modern Drama, 50.2 (Summer 2008), 188-210. Weitz, Eric. ‘Sleight of Frame: Exploitations of Comic Feeling by Two Irish Playwrights.’ Staging Thought: Essays on Irish Theatre, Scholarship and Practice, edited by Rhona Trench (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012), 139-52. Wood, Gerald C., Conor McPherson: Imagining Mischief (Dublin: Liffey Press, 2003).

Other Readings and General Studies of Contemporary Drama and Film and Culture

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