Terminus
$33.41
- Paperback
64 pages
- Release Date
24 March 2011
Summary
A blackly comic vision of Dublin infested with demons.
‘We go, see the slo-mo ebb and flow; the mill, the babble, the rabble of wobbling waywards, exiled and aimless, unlike us as, purposeful and double-file, like kids on a dare, we head who the fuck knows where?’
Three people are ripped from their daily lives and catapulted into a fantastical world of singing serial killers, avenging angels and lovesick demons.
Hold tight as the ordinary turns extraordinary in M…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848421745 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848421745 |
| Author: | Mark O'Rowe |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 24 March 2011 |
| Weight: | 80g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 127mm x 5mm |
| Series: | NHB Modern Plays |
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‘hilarious, stunning, surprisingly touching and enormously satisfying… a fantastic piece of writing’
‘Hilarious, stunning, surprisingly touching and enormously satisfying… a fantastic piece of writing’
* Irish Times *‘Dazzling… O’Rowe is expanding his language and dramatic form as far as they can go’
* Guardian *‘Gripping, grotesque and deliriously good… [Terminus] makes O’Rowe pretty much the most exciting contemporary Irish playwright’
* Sunday Tribune *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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