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Our Father by M.G. Stephens
One Act Play
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