This Lime Tree Bower

Cast: 3m

Staging: Minimal set

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Ebook, 60 pages ISBN: 9781780014357Publication Date:
13 May 2015
£4.99 £3.99You save £1.00 (20%)
First Staged:
Crypt Arts Centre, Dublin, 1995; Bush Theatre, London, 1996

This Lime Tree Bower

By Conor McPherson

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  • Winner of the Meyer-Whitworth Award - 1997

A poignant and gripping tale told through three interlinking monologues from the multi-award-winning author of The Weir.

Three young men from a small seaside town near Dublin tell us in overlapping monologues of their inextricably linked lives and the eventful week which was to change things for good...

Conor McPherson's play This Lime Tree Bower was first performed as an Íomhá Ildánach/Fly by Night co-production at the Crypt Arts Centre, Dublin, in September 1995. It was subsequently performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in July 1996.

The play won a Thames TV Award, a Guinness/National Theatre Ingenuity Award and the 1997 Meyer-Whitworth Award.

Conor McPherson adapted and directed a feature film version under the title Saltwater. Released in 2000, it starred Peter McDonald, Brian Cox, Brendan Gleeson and Conor Mullen.

This Lime Tree Bower is also available in the collection Conor McPherson Plays: One.

'People always blame something, don't they?'

Press Quotes

'A touching, marvellously entertaining play which tells a gripping tale with assured panache. This is a piece of real richness'

Daily Telegraph

Cast: 3m

Staging:Minimal set

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Ebook,60 pages ISBN: 9781780014357Publication Date:
13 May 2015
£4.99 £3.99You save £1.00 (20%)

Also by Conor McPherson:

The Veil
The Seafarer
Cold War
Girl from the North Country
Conor McPherson Plays: One
Dublin Carol
The Weir
Port Authority
The Night Alive
Conor McPherson Plays: Three
Come On Over
The Nest
Conor McPherson Plays: Two
The Dance of Death
Uncle Vanya
Shining City
The Birds
Rum and Vodka
St Nicholas
The Good Thief

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