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A Life (Leonard)

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  4w, 4m

Those who loved Da will remember Drumm, young Charlie's employer. In A Life this intriguing character is at the end of his life and setting his emotional accounts in order.

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Those who loved Da will remember Drumm, young Charlie's employer. In A Life this intriguing character is at the end of his life and setting his emotional accounts in order. Two casts represent the young and the old Desmond Drumm, his simple and loving wife, and the one true love of his life, who rejected him for a lovable ne'er do well. Now near death and isolated from the world by his "high principles", Drumm comes to realize he has never given his life or the people in it, a chance.

"Eloquent, literate, witty and touching." - Christian Science Monitor

"A marvelous, remarkable play." - WCBS-TV

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Hugh Leonard

Hugh Leonard was the pen-name of John Keyes Byrne. He was, as Christopher Fitz-Simon has written, `the most prolific and most technically assured of modern Irish playwrights,' and his cosmopolitanism shows in the range of his work: twenty-five plays (eighteen of which have be ...
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