Billy Irish
by Thomas Babe
Synopsis
THE STORY: The scene is a rundown farm in Vermont where two brothers, Billy Irish and Joe Witness, tell each other tales of their conversations with the likes of Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan and (as they also imagine themselves to be Jesse and Frank J
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"First presented as a joint production of the New York Shakespeare Festival and The Manhattan Theatre Club, this singular and brilliantly inventive play deftly combines the real and the imagined as it probes into American myths and mores and their power to both enhance and distort reality"
— for good or ill
Publication
Billy Irish is a American play written by Thomas Babe and published by Dramatists Play Service (1982).
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Dramatists Play Service · 1982 · 72 pp
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Restrictions: Major Markets Plus (US) / Standard Plus Add'l Postcodes (UK)
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