Frank Mcguinness

Synopsis

This first collection by Frank McGuinness contains plays from the 1980s, including his major work of that decade, <b> Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme</b>, a powerful and profoundly moving study of a group of Ulster Protestant volunteers in the Great War.

The book also contains <b>Carthaginians</b>, set in a Derry graveyard in the aftermath of the Bloody Sunday killings, <b>Innocence</b>, McGuinness's vigorous drama based on the life of Caravaggio, <b>The Factory Girls</b> and <b>Baglady</b>.