{"product_id":"9781802077902","title":"The Plays of Maura Laverty : Liffey Lane, Tolka Row, a Tree in the Crescent","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished here for the first time, Maura\n\u003cbr\u003eLaverty's plays Liffey Lane, Tolka Row and A Tree in the Crescent are rooted in 1950s Dublin, its territories and enclaves.\n\u003cbr\u003eTeeming with the lives of the poor, the ambitious, the trapped and the\n\u003cbr\u003estruggling, the plays are moving, funny and vividly alive. They capture the\n\u003cbr\u003ecapital in a state of transformation - reaching for modernisation while still\n\u003cbr\u003eenmired in stagnant class divisions, poor housing and narrow social values. Key\n\u003cbr\u003eto all three plays are questions of home, the lives of women and girls, and the\n\u003cbr\u003eimpact of conservative government policies and church attitudes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlready a public figure in Irish life, and an\n\u003cbr\u003einfluencer before her time through her fiction, cookery books and broadcasting,\n\u003cbr\u003eLaverty's plays met with huge success when staged in 1951 and 1952 by Hilton\n\u003cbr\u003eEdwards of the Gate Theatre Company at Dublin's Gaiety and Gate Theatres and on\n\u003cbr\u003etour. Laverty's trilogy is a significant and long-awaited part of the\n\u003cbr\u003etwentieth-century Irish theatrical canon. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume presents the Trilogy, including a\n\u003cbr\u003epreface by Christopher Fitz-Simon, who knew and worked with Laverty. The\n\u003cbr\u003eeditors' introduction contextualises Laverty's work and considers the\n\u003cbr\u003etheatrical values of the plays.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48852529250539,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":287.49,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781802077902-1.jpg?v=1782098094","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781802077902","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}