The Mommo Plays: Brigit; Bailegangaire; A Thief of a Christmas

By Tom Murphy and Tom Murphy

Brigit

I'd like it to be perfect . . . Beautiful . . . The statue . . . Unbeatable? . . . I'd like it to be what I feel . . . And I don't know what that is.

Set in the 1950s, Brigit, a prequel to Murphy's critically-acclaimed Bailegangaire (1985), tells the story of Mommo and S amus, grandparents living on the breadline, who are raising three grandchildren: Mary, Dolly and Tom, when S amus is offered a job to carve a statue of St Brigit.

Brigit premiered in September 2014, in a production by Druid Theatre Company, Galway, Ireland.

Bailegangaire

'One of the finest and most inventive pieces of Irish dramatic writing ever - the power of its language soaring beyond the loftiest aspirations of Synge and its insights on the human spirit cutting deeper than O'Casey's' - Sunday Independent

A Thief of a Christmas

'Grand opera . . . both timeless and contemporary' - Fintan O'Toole

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474218105
• ISBN13: 9781474218108
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.8"