Fishamble/Pigsback: First Plays

Fishamble is a dynamic theatre company at the core of new Irish playwriting. It has produced numerous award-winning new plays in Dublin, throughout Ireland and abroad. This collection brings together six diverse plays by new playwrights produced by Fishamble and under the company's original name, Pigsback, between 1991 and 2001: a moving exploration of childhood friendship and adult betrayal; a warm-hearted saga of a Jewish family living in Dublin during the 1930's; a contemporary bitter-sweet comedy about a dysfunctional Irish family; a comic thriller of revenge, violation and a smelly dog; a mythic play about dark secrets and adolescent passions during a hot summer in the 1970's; a macabre farce about murder and the search for justics during carnival time.

Table of contents:

• Introduction by Jim Culleton
• Foreword by Dermot Bolger
• Howling Moons, Silent Sons by Deirdre Hines
• The Ash Fire by Gavin Kostick
• Red Roses and Petrol by Joseph O'Connor
• From Both Hips by Mark O'Rowe
• The Nun's Wood by Pat Kinevane
• The Carnival King by Ian Kilroy