A01=Richard Bean
Author_Richard Bean
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Product details
- ISBN 9781840027754
- Weight: 136g
- Dimensions: 130 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 17 Aug 2010
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Set amongst the expatriate Irish community of New York as they try to raise money for NORAID, the charitable organization often accused of being an IRA front. New York fire fighters of Irish descent give money to NORAID, along comes 9/11, and several die at the hands of a terrorist group.
RICHARD BEAN, a former stand-up comedian and renowned British playwright has had plays staged worldwide. An award winning writer his first full length play, Of Rats and Men was staged at the Canal Café and went on to Edinburgh. He adapted it for radio for the BBC and it was nominated for a Sony Award. This was followed by Toast, a hit at the Royal Court in 1999. His other plays have been staged at such illustrious venues as the National Theatre, the Bush Theatre and the Hampstead theatre. Bean also won the 2005 Critics' Circle Theatre Best New Play Award for Harvest.
