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The Sanctuary Lamp (Methuen Modern Plays)

The Sanctuary Lamp (Methuen Modern Plays)

by TomMurphy (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

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Synopsis

The most important and controversial work to be mounted by the National Theatre for many a year (Irish Times) The Sanctuary Lamp is set in a church. Murphy, in the best traditions of Bunuel, takes a hallowed institution and populates it with social misfits who desecrate every convention in both thought and action...Murphy's savage indignation is unbearably true... (Irish Times)

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 76
 Edition: New Edition - New ed
 Publisher: A&C Black 3PL
Published: 15 Aug 2001
ISBN 10: 9780413771
ISBN 13: 9780413771223

Media Reviews
'Murphy, in the best traditions of Bunuel, takes a hallowed institution and populates it with social misfits who desecrate every convention in both thought and action... Murphy's savage indignation is unbearably true...' Irish Times
Author Bio
Tom Murphy's work includes A Whistle in the Dark, Famine, The Morning After Optimism, The Sanctuary Lamp, Conversations on a Homecomnig, The Gigli Concert, Bailegangaire, Too Late for Logic, She Stoop s to Folly and The Wake. His career has been markedly associated with the Irish National Theatre (th e Abbey Theatre). He was born in Tuam, Co. Galway. He lives in Dublin.