A View from the Obelisk

A View from the Obelisk

A View from the Obelisk

A View from the Obelisk

A View from the Obelisk

Overview

Convalescing from heart surgery, Owen returns to his native Ireland with Rosemary and insists on showing her the view from a hilltop near Dublin. The climb takes a lot out of him and Rosemary goes off to summon a car. Owen strikes up a conversation with a young artist sketching the view as though he's known him for years. When Rosemary returns Owen realizes why the boy seemed so familiar.

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Details

  • Time Period: Contemporary

Authors

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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