Home before night by hugh leonard7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Since its formation as the National Theatre of Ireland by W.B. He has published two volumes of autobiography, Home Before Night and Out After Dark as well as his novel A Wild People. His novelisation of his 4-part drama Parnell and the Englishwoman (BBC) won the 1992 Sagittarius Award. Other works include the screenplays for TV adaptations of Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickleby, The Moonstone, Wuthering Heights and Good Behaviour. Other plays include A Leap in the Dark (1957), A Walk on the Water (1960), The Saints Go Cycling In (1965), The Au Pair Man (1968), The Patrick Pearse Motel (1971) and Time Was (1976). His plays include the Tony Award-winning Da (1973) and Tony-nominated A Life (1979). Hugh Leonard is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and novelist. in a class with the best of Sean O'Casey."- New York Times "A beguiling play about a son's need to come to terms with his father and himself. ![]() ![]() ![]() As the events of Charlie's youth and Da's troubled relationship with Mother are replayed, we discover the darkly comic, bittersweet relationship that existed between father and son. After Da's funeral, Charlie returns to his childhood home only to find his father's ghost stubbornly unwilling to leave the house. ![]()
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