The Great Hunger: Poem Into PlayIncludes both the poem and the play, with textual notes and a critical essay about the works. |
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Abbey Theatre AGNES Jump Aisy ANNE MAGUIRE MARY audience bag-apron basket biretta branch bucket centre-stage Christ clay coins Collected Poems collection-box crumb of bread Cuala Press dance door downstage left drawer Dublin Eileen enters upstage left exit downstage right exit upstage right exits upstage left face flat porter goes grass green leaves head heifer horse Hunger Irish JOE MALONE kettle laugh legs Mac Intyre Mac Intyre's MAGUIRE and MALONE MAGUIRE MARY ANNE MAGUIRE moves Maguire went home MAGUIRE's MALONE and JOE MALONE MAGUIRE MARY ANNE MAGUIRE MOTHER moves downstage PACKY Paddy Maguire Patrick Kavanagh Patrick Maguire Peacock Theatre peasant Peter Brook pigs and cows pitch-and-toss players plough position potato PRIEST Punch and Judy rattling rise robotic dance rope ruckety pass Scene SCHOOL-GIRL script Seamus Heaney Sitting Soul for Sale space spade stage stage-left stare tabernacle takes theatrical Tom Hickey TOM MALONE turn turnips watches wooden gate YOUNG WOMEN