Cyprus Avenue

Ireland's play "Cyprus Avenue" explores the complexity of Ulster Loyalism through a man's identity crisis, winning awards and critical acclaim.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 96 pages
Publication date: 23 September 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

“Ireland’s play slyly makes the case that it is not discrimination that ensures survival ... but rather the ability to be two opposing things at once: Irish and British, politician and terrorist, even comedy and tragedy. If tragicomedy is the natural Irish form, Ireland makes his own inversion here, beginning with amused splutters, ending in hard gulps,” writes Eric Miller in his review of David Irelands black comedy, Cyprus Avenue, in The Irish Times. Miller is a Belfast Loyalist who believes his five-week-old granddaughter is Gerry Adams. His family keeps telling him to stop living in the past and fighting old battles that nobody cares about anymore, but his cultural heritage is under siege. He must act. David Irelands black comedy takes one mans identity crisis to the limits as he uncovers the modern day complexity of Ulster Loyalism. Cyprus Avenue premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2016, before transferring to the Royal Court Theatre, The MAC in Belfast, and The Public Theater in New York. It won Best New Play at the Irish Times Theatre Awards and the James Tait Black Prize for Drama, 2017. This edition features a new introduction by Professor Ondrej Pilny.

Weight: 88g
Dimension: 128 x 198 x 9 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350184619