Prayers of Sherkin ; Boss Grady's Boys: Two PlaysBoss Grady's boys: The brothers in Sebastian Barry's early play, now long past their boyhood, are two lonely, windswept souls, still labouring on a declining hill farm on the Cork-Kerry border, still dreaming of escape. This they find in the movies, a mythology of Marx Brothers anarchy and cowboy solidarity |
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