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	Fiction Non-Fiction Poetry Film Art MEB Authors Events Distribution Booksense Contacts	Our Father by M.G. Stephens One Act Play ISBN 1-881471-15-2 $10.00 US \| $14.00 CAN 80 pages Find the book on Amazon > 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

Fiction

Non-Fiction

Our Father by M.G. Stephens

One Act Play
ISBN 1-881471-15-2 $10.00 US | $14.00 CAN 80 pages

Find the book on Amazon >

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