MALAPROP: plays by Carys D. Coburn - ISBN: 9781839042850
Paperback
Bold, playful Irish plays challenge, delight, and imagine different worlds.

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  • Paperback

    192 pages

  • Release Date

    21 September 2023

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Summary

MALAPROP Theatre is an award-winning collective of Irish theatremakers, who seek to challenge, delight and speak to the world we live in (even when imagining different ones). This volume brings together four of their bold, playful and genre-spanning plays, all premiered at the Dublin Fringe Festival between 2017 and 2023.

In Everything Not Saved, ex-lovers argue about when they were happiest, police officers rewrite history, and Rasputin dances like no one’s …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781839042850
ISBN-10:1839042850
Author:Carys D. Coburn, MALAPROP Theatre
Publisher:Nick Hern Books
Imprint:Nick Hern Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:192
Release Date:21 September 2023
Weight:211g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm
Series:NHB Modern Plays
What They're Saying

Critics Review

’[HOTHOUSE is] deadly serious and wildly funny… a sharp, nuanced script that rips along… Malaprop pulls it off with skill, style and substance’

* Irish Times *

’[Before You Say Anything is] subtle, timely and beautifully paced… riveting’

* Irish Times *

About The Author

Carys D. Coburn

Carys D. Coburn (they/them) is a writer and theatre maker based in Dublin. Their plays include: BÁN (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 2025, nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize); Absent The Wrong (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 2022, as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival); Boys and Girls (Dublin Fringe Festival 2013, winner of Best New Writing Award, nominated for the Stewart Parker Trust Award); Drawing Crosses on a Dusty Windowpane (Dublin Fringe 2015); Citysong (winner of the Verity Bargate Award; Abbey Theatre Dublin and Soho Theatre London 2019); Briseis after the Black and Blackcatfishmusketeer (Dublin Fringe 2016); and This is a Room (Dublin Theatre Festival 2017). They are a collaborating writer with MALAPROP Theatre, with whom they have co-written JERICHO (Bewleys Cafe Theatre, 2017), Everything Not Saved (Dublin Fringe, 2017), Before You Say Anything (Dublin Fringe, 2020), Where Sat the Lovers (Dublin Fringe, 2021) and HOTHOUSE (Dublin Fringe, 2023). Carys D. Coburn was formerly known as Dylan Coburn Gray.

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