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The Loves of Cass McGuire

Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy  /  6f, 4m

Brian Friel

The Loves of Cass McGuire
by Brian Friel

For more than fifty years Cass McGuire has worked a block from Skid Row, among deadbeats and washouts - people who live in the past. This bawdy, vital, compassionate play deals with her return to Ireland and her genteel family's rejection of her.

P ublished in the volume Brian Friel: Collected Plays 1, with The Enemy Within (1962); Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1964); Lovers (Winners and Losers) (1967); Crystal and Fox (1968); and, The Gentle Island (1971).

The Loves of Cass McGuire

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    6f, 4m
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

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Summary
For more than fifty years Cass McGuire has worked a block from Skid Row, among deadbeats and washouts - people who live in the past. This bawdy, vital, compassionate play deals with her return to Ireland and her genteel family's rejection of her. It follows her lonely struggle to rediscover the home she's dreamt of all her life and her eventual surrender to the make-believe of Eden House, rest home for elderly people.
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting A spacious room
  • Cautions
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Brian Friel

Brian Friel

Brian Friel (1929-2015), largely considered modern Ireland’s leading playwright, was born to a schoolmaster and a postmistress. After working as a teacher in Derry for ten years, he married Anne Morrison and moved to Donegal to begin writing in earnest. His first significant ...

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