Prayers of Sherkin; Boss Grady's Boys
Pocketbok. Methuen Drama. 1991.
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Prayers of Sherkin (Peacock Theatre, Dublin, November 1990) is a haunting and evocative play set in the 1890s about the dwindling of a religious sect who came to Sherkin Island off the south west coast of Ireland from Manchester three generations previously in search of their own 'New Jerusalem'. The arrival of Patrick Kirwin, Catholic lithographer from Cork city, in the neighbouring town of Baltimore, threatens the end of the sect but also brings hope for the future to its last daughter. Hailed as one of the new Irish plays bringing poetic drama back into the theatre, it has been called 'a luminously beautiful work' (Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times).
Boss Grady's Boys (Peacock Theatre, 1988), centred around two brothers in their later years, living in their small hill farm on the Cork/Kerry border, 'has an emotional intensity, a theatrical fluidity and a sense of humanity that are rare and very special. Barry keeps a miraculous balance between ironic absurdity and unrestrained yearning, between Mick and Josey's comic awareness of their own situation and the love and pity which underlie that awareness' (Fintan O'Toole, Sunday Tribune).
