Madame Macadam Theatre by Thomas Kilroy
The Madame MacAdam Travelling Theatre is a small English touring company of players. It arrives in a provincial Irish town, sometime in the early 1940s during the turmoil of World War II.
Thomas Kilroy was born in 1934 in Callan, Co. Kilkenny. His novel The Big Chapel (1971) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1971, but he is best known as a playwright. His plays include The Death and Resurrection of Mr Roche (1968); The O'Neill (1995); Sex and Shakespheare (1998); Talbot's Box (1979); The Seagull (1981); Double Cross (1986); The Madam MacAdam Travelling Theatre (Methuen Drama, 1992); and The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde (1997). He has also adapted Ibsen's Ghosts (Peacock, 1989) and Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author (The Abbey, 1996). His awards include the Heinemann Award for Literature, The AIB Literary Prize, the American-Irish Foundation Award for Literature, The Rockefeller Foundation Residency, the Kyoto University Foundation Fellowship, and a Prix Nikki Special Commendation. He is a member of The Irish Academy of Letters, The Royal Society of Literature, and Aosdána.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780413663108 |
| ISBN 10 | 0413663108 |
| Title | Madame Macadam Theatre |
| Author | Thomas Kilroy |
| Series | Modern Plays |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 1991-09-16 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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