Keane, John B.

The Change in Mame Fadden.

Cork / Dublin, The Mercier Press, 1973. 11 cm x 18 cm. 114 pages. Original softcover. Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some marks on cover. Clean inside with intact binding.

Includes for example the following acts: A Quayside – evening / sitting-room of the Fadden’s house / The same – an hour later / At a bus-stop. Night / Sitting-room of the Faddens’ house. Half an hour later / The same – a few nigts later / The bus-stop. Late that night etc.

John B. Keane was born in Listowel in 1928. Having worked in a variety of jobs in Ireland and England, he married and settled down to run a pub in his native town. Now he is recognised as a major Irish writer, who had written many successful plays and books, Sive, Sharon’s Grave, The Highest House on the Mountain, The Man from Clare, The Year of the Hiker, The Field, Many Young Men of Twenty, Big Maggie, Moll, Self Portrait, Letters of a Successful T.D., Letters of an Irish Parish Prist and the Gentle Art of Matchmaking.

″Mame Fadden in this new play is equally memorable: maddeningly human but of tragic dimensions. We watch her inevitable progress towards her ultimate crisis; this is a woman pushed to the limit. Her story is the more poignant for being enacted against a back ground of suburban comfort, but Mame and her problems are universal. For Twenty years she has scarificed everything for her husband and her sons. Now she faces the physical and mental upheaval of the change of life. She asks – begs – for sympathy and love. Her family can respond only with gestures as obtuse as they are well-meaning. They simply do not understand. That is Mame’s tragedy”. (Publisher).

• Keywords: Catalogue Irish History Seven – Irish Literature – Poetry – Music – Theatre · Catalogue No.10 – International Literature · Drama – Rare · First Edition · Irish Drama · Irish Poetry – Rare · play · Plays
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 78214AB

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