Royal Court Theatre presents : Woman and scarecrow /
By: Carr, Marina [author.].
Contributor(s): Royal Court Theatre.
Publisher: London : Faber and Faber, 2006Description: 77 pages ; 20 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780571233410; 9780571233410:; 0571233414.Other title: Woman and scarecrow.Subject(s): Deathbeds -- Drama | English drama -- Irish authors![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 822.92 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0089764 |
"First performance at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Sloane Square, London on 16th June 2006."
Leaving behind her eight children and a remorseful husband, a passionate Woman, now gaunt and weak, surveys her life as she faces death and asks what could have been. Full of mordant, bitter humour, this is a fierce and beautiful lament from one of Ireland's leading playwrights--back cover.
A woman - gaunt and ill, haggard after giving birth eight times - faces death. What was life? What was love? What else could have been? Featuring humour, this is a threnody from one of Ireland's leading playwrights.