{"product_id":"the-mommo-plays","title":"The Mommo Plays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrigit\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI'd like it to be perfect . . . Beautiful . . . The statue . . . Unbeatable? . . . I'd like it to be what I feel . . . And I don't know what that is.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in the 1950s, \u003ci\u003eBrigit\u003c\/i\u003e, a prequel to Murphy's critically-acclaimed \u003ci\u003eBailegangaire \u003c\/i\u003e(1985), tells the story of Mommo and Séamus, grandparents living on the breadline, who are raising three grandchildren: Mary, Dolly and Tom, when Séamus is offered a job to carve a statue of St Brigit. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrigit \u003c\/i\u003epremiered in September 2014, in a production by Druid Theatre Company, Galway, Ireland. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBailegangaire\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'One of the finest and most inventive pieces of Irish dramatic writing ever - the power of its language soaring beyond the loftiest aspirations of Synge and its insights on the human spirit cutting deeper than O'Casey's' \u003ci\u003e- Sunday Independent \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Thief of a Christmas \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Grand opera . . . both timeless and contemporary' - Fintan O'Toole","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833542717645,"sku":"9781474218108","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_335d5447-6a1b-4c2e-a8f2-158d8a5fce65.jpg?v=1790888533","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/the-mommo-plays","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}