Dallas Sweetman (Drama Text)

Dallas Sweetman (Drama Text)

by SebastianBarry (Author)

Synopsis

From his grave in the precincts of Canterbury Cathedral, Dallas Sweetman is called to give account. He tells a story of love and death, jealousy and miraculous happenings, of the divided loyalties of Protestants and Catholics in the Elizabethan Age. Before us, his judges, Dallas seeks to justify the actions of his life. But is he telling the truth? And can he be forgiven? The lost tradition of staging new plays at Canterbury Cathedral, most famously T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, was revived with the premiere of Sebastian Barry's Dallas Sweetman in September 2008.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 67
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 16 Oct 2008

ISBN 10: 057124470X
ISBN 13: 9780571244706
Book Overview: Dallas Sweetman by Sebastian Barry: 'Why have you called me now? Is there some rumour still of me, and of my life? Is it God calls me, in God's great house?'

Author Bio
Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His novels and plays have won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. A Long Long Way (2005) and the top ten bestseller The Secret Scripture (2008) were shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize. He lives in County Wicklow with his wife and three children.