Howie the Rookie
$34.76
- Paperback
52 pages
- Release Date
13 February 1999
Summary
A white-knuckle ride through a nightmare Dublin, where enemies and allies are interchangeable.
First we meet Howie. He tells us how, one night, he gets caught up in a gang intent on beating up Rookie. He’s supposed to be baby-sitting his five-year-old brother, but he goes just the same. They beat up Rookie. Howie returns to discover a horrible accident has happened to the little boy. Then we hear the story from Rookie’s point of view…
Mark O’Rowe’s play Howie the Rookie
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781854594228 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1854594222 |
| Author: | Mark O'Rowe |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 52 |
| Release Date: | 13 February 1999 |
| Weight: | 71g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 125mm x 4mm |
| Series: | NHB Modern Plays |
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Critics Review
‘the humour and the horror of what turns out to be a cleverly crafted interlocking narrative grabs you by the collar and head-butts you into submission’
‘Grabs you by the collar and head-butts you into submission’
* Sunday Times *‘Outstanding’
* Telegraph *‘A magnificent mix of violence and poignancy’
* The Stage *‘Startling… there are shades of Homer’s Odyssey in the sweep of this telling, or of Joyce’s Ulysses in the elevation of ordinary detail to heroic form’
* Irish Times *‘Mesmerising… funny, tragic, shocking and disturbing in turn’
* Scotsman *’[Has] the lip-smacking relish and the whooping vulgarity of Behan, Joyce or Flann O’Brien’
* Whatsonstage.com *About The Author
Mark O'Rowe
Mark O’Rowe is an Irish playwright whose plays include Howie the Rookie (Bush Theatre, London, 1999), From Both Hips (Fishamble, 1997), Made in China (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 2001), Crestfall (Gate Theatre, Dublin, 2003), Terminus (Abbey Theatre, 2007), Our Few and Evil Days (Abbey Theatre, 2014), The Approach (Landmark Productions, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 2018) and Reunion (Landmark Productions, Galway International Arts Festival, 2024). His version of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler was staged by the Abbey Theatre in 2015.His screenplays include Broken (2012), based on the novel by Daniel Clay, Perrier’s Bounty (2009), Boy A (2007), based on the novel by Jonathan Trigell, and Intermission (2004).Author photo by Ros Kavanagh
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