This Lime Tree Bower
Ebook, 60 pages ISBN: 9781780014357Publication Date:
13 May 2015
£4.99 £3.99You save £1.00 (20%)
First Staged:
Crypt Arts Centre, Dublin, 1995; Bush Theatre, London, 1996

This Lime Tree Bower

By Conor McPherson

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  • Winner of the Meyer-Whitworth Award - 1997

A poignant and gripping tale told through three interlinking monologues from the multi-award-winning author of The Weir.

Three young men from a small seaside town near Dublin tell us in overlapping monologues of their inextricably linked lives and the eventful week which was to change things for good...

Conor McPherson's play This Lime Tree Bower was first performed as an Íomhá Ildánach/Fly by Night co-production at the Crypt Arts Centre, Dublin, in September 1995. It was subsequently performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in July 1996.

The play won a Thames TV Award, a Guinness/National Theatre Ingenuity Award and the 1997 Meyer-Whitworth Award.

Conor McPherson adapted and directed a feature film version under the title Saltwater. Released in 2000, it starred Peter McDonald, Brian Cox, Brendan Gleeson and Conor Mullen.

This Lime Tree Bower is also available in the collection Conor McPherson Plays: One.

'People always blame something, don't they?'

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'A touching, marvellously entertaining play which tells a gripping tale with assured panache. This is a piece of real richness'

Daily Telegraph
Ebook,60 pages ISBN: 9781780014357Publication Date:
13 May 2015
£4.99 £3.99You save £1.00 (20%)

Also by Conor McPherson:

Uncle Vanya
The Seafarer
The Good Thief
Shining City
The Veil
Cold War
The Night Alive
The Weir
Conor McPherson Plays: Three
Conor McPherson Plays: Two
The Dance of Death
Come On Over
Conor McPherson Plays: One
Girl from the North Country
Dublin Carol
Rum and Vodka
The Nest
Port Authority
The Birds
St Nicholas

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