Bøger af Billy Roche

A major release from Initial films for Channel Four starring Stephen Rea and Richard Harris. Award-winning writer Billy Roche and director Gillies Mackinnon create a strange compelling world on the edge of society

A gripping, unrelenting but warm-spirited glimpse of life in a small southern Irish town. Winner of the John Whiting Award and the Plays and Players Award for Best New Play.

Oweney's barber shop and the rooms above it offer refuge to a host of lonely hearts: a recently laid-off hotel night porter, an angry young artist, an orphan girl and the beautiful Maeve. All of them in their way fall under Oweney's loving spell.

Set in rural Ireland of the early 60s, this work takes us into the burlesque world of Delaney's Travelling Roadshow and in particular its boxing hall where prizefighter Dean takes on all comers on a nightly basis. That is, until a challenge from a professional fighter upsets the apple-cart.

Two plays from the author of The Wexford Trilogy.

Set in a snooker club, a betting shop and a local church, each play introduces a mix of young cornerboys, old cowboys and chancers of any age in a lyrical, poignant and often hilarious account of lost dreams and thwarted ambitions.