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    A Handful of Stars (NHB Modern Plays)

    By Billy Roche

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    A gripping but warm-spirited snapshot of life in a small southern Irish town.

    In the sleepy Irish town of Wexford, where shotgun weddings are outnumbered only by random acts of violence, the pool hall is Jimmy's sanctuary. But will such a place embrace his bright ambition, or bring it down, burning, to the ground?

    Originally part of Billy Roche's The Wexford Trilogy, A Handful of Stars was first performed in 1988 at the Bush Theatre, where it won the John Whiting Award and the Plays and Players Award for Best New Play.

    This edition was published alongside the play's first professional stand-alone revival at Theatre503, London.

    'Simultaneously mean and warm, stifling and nourishing, comic and sad' - The Times

    'Funny, rueful and tender... has the potency of truth' - Telegraph

    'Carefully observed... almost unbearably honest' - Time Out

    'A nice balance of comedy and tension... [has] a great deal of warmth' - A Younger Theatre

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNick Hern Books
    Release dateMar 28, 2020
    ISBN9781788502214
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    A Handful of Stars (NHB Modern Plays)
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    Billy Roche

    Billy Roche is an Irish playwright, screenwriter and author. Born in Wexford, he worked as an actor and a singer before turning to writing in the 1980s. His plays include the acclaimed Wexford Trilogy, comprising A Handful of Stars (1988), Poor Beast in the Rain (1989) and Belfry (1990), which won him numerous awards in both Ireland and Britain. Other plays include: Amphibians (1992), The Cavalcaders (1993), On Such As We (2001) and Lay Me Down Softly (2008). His prose works include the novel Tumbling Down (1986) and the short story collection Tales From Rainwater Pond (2006). His work for the screen includes his IFTA-nominated, four-part TV series Clean Break, which premiered on RTE in 2015.

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