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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Use in library	PR6063.C73 A6 2013	Off-site

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x, 376 p.; 20 cm

Summary

In Shining City, a man seeks help from a counsellor, claiming to have seen the ghost of his recently deceased wife
The Seafarer tells the story of an extended Christmas Eve card game, but one played for the highest stakes possible.
Set in 'the big house' in 1820s rural Ireland, The Veil is McPherson's first period play. Seventeen-year-old Hannah is to be married off in order to settle the debts of the crumbling estate. But when the Reverend Berkeley arrives, determined to orchestrate a séance, chaos in unleashed.
The Birds, hauntingly adapted from the short story by Daphne du Maurier.
The Dance of Death is a new version of Strindberg's classic.

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Plays. Selections. 2013

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"Shining City was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 4 June 2004"--page 3.
"The Seafarer was first performed in the Cottesloe auditorium of the National Theatre, London, on 28 September 2006"--page 59.
"The Birds was first performed at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, on 29 September 2009"--page 155.
"The Veil was first performed in the Lyttelton auditorium of the National Theatre, London, on 4 October 2011"--page 213.
"This version of The Dance of Death was first performed at the Trafalgar Studios, London, as part of the Donmar Trafalgar season, on 13 December 2012"--page 309.

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Contents

Shining city--The seafarer--The birds--The veil--The dance of death

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Princeton University Library