Once Before I Go
$44.32
- Paperback
120 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2021
Summary
You can paint your placards ‘til the cows come home, but until you have marched through this town in five inch heels and fishnets, you will never know what it is to truly be a faggot on the front line.
Told against the backdrop of Dublin’s burgeoning gay rights movement of the 1980s and 1990s and the contemporary LGBTQ+ community of today, Once Before I Go charts the close friendship of Lynn, Daithí, and the luminous Bernard, and sits on the exhilarating edge between comedy, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350280069 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1350280062 |
| Author: | Phillip McMahon |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Methuen Drama |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 120 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2021 |
| Weight: | 120g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 128mm x 196mm |
| Series: | Modern Plays |
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Critics Review
Unmissable … an important national play
A play that implores us to join the dance, to live fully, to live without judgment, to live well. * Irish Times *
Unmissable … an important national play * Irish Independent *
Playwright Phillip McMahon sets out to memorialise young men whose deaths from Aids were often hidden, or never fully acknowledged, at a time when homosexuality was illegal in Ireland. * Guardian *
Phillip McMahon
Phillip McMahon is a playwright and theatre director based in Dublin. His most recent play COME ON HOME, directed by Olivier Award Winner Rachel O’Riordan, played a sold out season at the Abbey Theatre Dublin in 2018. Over ten years, he has produced a number of plays, performances, a book and a film with drag superstar and activist Panti Bliss. Phillip was director, deviser and dramaturg on Panti’s live shows IN THESE SHOES?, ALL DOLLED UP, A WOMAN IN PROGRESS, ROOTING FOR AUSTRALIA and HIGH HEELS IN LOW PLACES.
Phillip is an Artistic Associate at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre.
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