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 Our
Father by M.G. Stephens
ISBN
1-881471-15-2 $10.00 US |
$14.00 CAN 80 pages
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One Act play
originally ran off-broadway for five years about sons
lamenting the
death of their father at an Irish wake in a
New York City bar.
Six
brothers sit in a New York bar with their father's coffin, laughing
their
lament and
shouting their sorrow in an increasingly
anarchic manner. A
relentless
energy pulsates throughout the whole performance.
The
Stage (London)
The script is intellectual, brilliant and irreverently
caustic Each brother
gives a eulogy which describes, through improbable
fantasies which in
any people but the Irish would be called hallucinations,
how he murdered
the dear departed a tour-de-force. The
Scotsman (Edinburgh)
Stephens' writing is funny, fast and furious, using
indirect speech, directly
spoken, to underline the fragmentation of consciousness and
memory.
Hampstead and Highgate Express (London)
A Curiously moving experience.
Village View (L.A.)
In a little under an hour, Our Father gives a
small
glimpse, but a richly rewarding
one, at the poetry and fire and emotional
dichotomy of the
Irish soul.
T.H. McCollough, L.A. Times
This edition of
Our Father demands, once again, it be restaged for a new audience.
Irish Echo
M.G.Stephens
M.G. Stephens is the
author of
eighteen books, including the novels The Brooklyn Book of
the Dead
and Season
at Coole;
the play Our
Father,
which was revived
last year in London; and the nonfiction books Lost in Seoul, Green
Dreams, and
Where
the Sky Ends.
Mick lives in London,
is the director of
the MA in creative writing at
Kingston University in Surrey, England, and is finishing up a PhD
thesis on the St. Mark's in the Bowery
Poetry Project and
its
influences at the University of Essex in Colchester, England. His essay
is drawn from that thesis. Some of his other recent
work includes
essays and stories in Witness, Boston
Review, the
Review
of Contemporary Fiction and Foreign Policy. He recently
completed the
third novel in the
Coole family saga, this new one called Kid Coole,
and has been writing a book of sonnets for several years now, as well
as
writing a nonfiction
book about living in England after 9/11, and
also surviving one of the tube explosions on July 7th this year, being
on
the train in front of
where the Edgware Road bomb went off.
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