April 2010 Irish Plays

April 2010 - Irish Plays

Did the dialect get in the way of the story? What did you learn about Ireland and the Irish? Could the play have been written by a playwright of any other nationality?

By Playwright:

Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape, Happy Days, Play, etc

Frank Carney


Oliver Goldsmith
The Vicar of Wakefield, She Stoops to Conquer

Frank McGuiness


Sean O'Casey
Juno and the Paycock, The Plough and the Stars, The End of the Beginning, Red Roses for Me, Cock-A -Doodle Dandy

Jimmy Murphy


Tom Murphy


George Bernard Shaw
Arms and the Man, Candida, Caesar and Cleopatra, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, Androcles and the Lion, Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, Saint Joan

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Rivals, The School for Scandal

John Milington Synge
Riders to the Sea, Playboy of the Western World, Deirdre of the Sorrows

Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, Salome, An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Ernest

William Butler Yeats
Purgatory, The Resurrection

Include any others you can think of.