The Visiting Hour (Play)

The Visiting Hour (Play)
Frank McGuinness
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Paperback
h195 x 130mm - 48pg
22 Apr 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780571371402
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You used to swing me on our garden gate. In and out, in and out - out and in, me, on top of the gate, safe because I was in your arms, my father' s big strong arms. Recalling events that may or may not have happened, people he may or may not have known, an elderly father weaves his life, funny, angry, poignant, as if in a dream. His daughter, perched outside his window, as close as the pandemic allows, responds with conflicting memories. They sing and argue, they broach dangerous ground, their profound love apparent despite themselves, until the visiting hour is up. Written during the Covid-19 lockdown of 2020, Frank McGuinness' s The Visiting Hour premiered in April 2021 at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, in the first online Gate At Home production.
Frank McGuinness was born in Buncrana, Co. Donegal, and now lives in Dublin and lectures in English at University College Dublin. His plays include: The Factory Girls (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1982), Baglady (Abbey, 1985), Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Abbey, 1985; Hampstead Theatre, London, 1986), Innocence (Gate Theatre, Dublin, 1986), Carthaginians (Abbey, 1988; Hampstead, 1989), Mary and Lizzie (RSC, 1989), The Bread Man (Gate, 1991), Someone Who' ll Watch Over Me (Hampstead, West End and Broadway, 1992), The Bird Sanctuary (Abbey, 1994), Mutabilitie (NT, 1997), Dolly West' s Kitchen (Abbey, 1999; Old Vic, 2000), Gates of Gold (Gate, 2002), Speaking Like Magpies (Swan, Stratford, 2005), There Came a Gypsy Riding (Almeida, London, 2007), Greta Garbo Came to Donegal (Tricycle Theatre, London, 2010) and The Match Box (Liverpool Playhouse Studio, 2012). His widely performed versions include Ibsen' s Rosmersholm (1987), Peer Gynt (1988), Hedda Gabler (1994), A Doll' s House (1997), The Lady from the Sea (2008) and John Gabriel Borkman (2010); Chekhov' s Three Sisters (1990) and Uncle Vanya (1995); Lorca' s Yerma (1987); Brecht' s The Threepenny Opera (1991) and The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1997); Sophocles' Electra (1998) and Oedipus (2008); Ostrovsky' s The Storm (1998); Strindberg' s Miss Julie (2000); Euripides' Hecuba (2004) and Helen (2009); Racine' s Phaedra (2006) and Tirso de Molina' s Damned by Despair (2012).
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780571371402
Published: 22 Apr 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback
Height: 195mm
Width: 130mm
Spine: 3mm
Weight: 100g
Pages: 48

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