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Nick Hern Books
Cold Comfort
Series: NHB Modern Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Published in volume Singular Male Voices
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First Staged:
Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast, 2005; Theatre 503, London, 2006

Cold Comfort

By Owen McCafferty
Published in volume Singular Male Voices
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A powerful monologue about an Irish labourer living in London who returns home to Belfast to have a last, drunken 'conversation' with his recently dead father.

Owen McCafferty's play Cold Comfort was first staged by Prime Cut Productions Theatre Company at the Old Museum Arts Centre in Belfast in May 2005.

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'An angry requiem soaked in whiskey... a shattering portrait of self-inflicted pain'

Sunday Times
Series: NHB Modern Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Published in volume Singular Male Voices
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Also by Owen McCafferty:

Mojo Mickybo: Three Plays
Days of Wine and Roses
Scenes From the Big Picture
Closing Time
The Waiting List
Antigone
Shoot the Crow
Singular Male Voices
Mojo Mickybo
I Won't Dance - Don't Ask Me

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