STAINED GLASS AT SAMHAIN
A Play by Patricia Burke Brogan

| Paperback | 130 x 204mm | 84pages | ISBN 1 903392 23 3 | September 2003

Stained Glass At Samhain - a new play by the author of multi-award winning Eclipsed -takes place during Samhain, when boundaries between the living and the dead dissolve. Sister Luke, a former Superior of Killmacha Magdalen Laundry, returns to her convent, where she challenges and entertains with the wit and emotional power of her stories. Stained Glass At Samhain is a deeply personal, raw and intimate piece of theatre.

"This compassionate, courageous play...should be brought to a wider audience." The Irish Times

"Brogan has a real ability to paint a landscape with words... [She] is a beautiful writer, who takes on moral issues that need to be addressed." Irish Theatre Magazine

"Patricia Burke Brogan writes with passion and poetry... Stained Glass at Samhain allows us to be both amazed and amused at our shameful past. Frankly and whole-heartedly entertaining." Galway Independent

 

 
About the Playwright
Patricia Burke Brogan is a painter, poet and playwright. Her etchings have won awards at Barcelona and at Listowel International Biennale 1982. Above the Waves Calligraphy, her collection of poems and etchings, and the script of her stage play, Eclipsed, were published by Salmon Poetry in 1994. Eclipsed has won many awards including a Fringe First at Edinburgh Theatre Festival 1992 and the USA Moss Hart Award 1994. To date there have been fifty-three productions of the play on three continents. Eclipsed has been excerpted in documentaries and other collected works including The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Volumes 4 and 5, Irish Women Playwrights of the Twentieth Century, IrelandÕs Women: Writings Past and Present, and Motherhood in Ireland. Patricia received an Arts Council Bursary in Literature in 1993 and a European Script WritersÕ Fund in 1994.
 
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Other Salmon books by PATRICIA BURKE BROGAN:
Eclipsed: A Play (1994)
Above the Waves Calligraphy: Poems (1994)