Stewart Parker

"Stewart Parker was a playwright whose sense of history and elegance of wit and feeling were unusual in the British Theatre" (Observer) This volume includes three of Stewart Parker's most striking plays - Northern Star: 'Only an Irishman could have written something like this: a freewheeling, lunatic sense of invention is harnessed to a cultivated, literary imagination and stoked up by moral outrage. It is a captivating play' (Sunday Times); Heavenly Bodies: 'The colourful, rather Balzacian story of Boucicault ...An undoubted talent for pungent dialogue' (The Times); Pentecost: 'One of the most stimulating, most satisfying, most touching, most illuminating in years of Irish theatre. A total theatrical experience' (Irish Times)

Northern Star; Heavenly Bodies; Pentecost

Parker Plays: 2

Shaun Davey

A Charade in Two Acts

Catchpenny Twist

The Irish Times Column, 1970-1976

High Pop

Parker's poignant novel depicts events surrounding the amputation of his left leg as a nineteen-year-old university student.

Hopdance

The first serious study of Alexander Lukashenko president of Belarus. Exposes the reality behind the myth of 'Europe's last Dictatorship'.

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