Plays 1: Mojo Mickybo / Shoot the Crow / Closing Time / Scenes from the Big Picture / The Waiting List

by Owen McCafferty

Owen McCafferty's first collection brings together one short- and four full-length plays set in the author's home city of Belfast. Shoot The Crow 'Tragicomedy of character and circumstance that makes McCafferty look like a ribald Northern Irish Chekov.' Guardian . Scenes From The Big Picture 'An epic that attempts to put the whole of human life on stage - birth, death, love, sex, work, families - the whole damn thing... McCafferty offers us a wise and compassionate view of the human heart.' Telegraph Closing Time 'The existence of a writer as good as McCafferty induces a perverse, paradoxical hope.' Guardian Mojo Mikibo 'A razor sharp evocation of time and place.' Irish Times

384 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2013

Reviews

[Rima · Rating 3 out of 5]

Only read The scenes from the big picture from this collection but it was good enough to show me enough of the author's skills. Through a haptic and multiple narrative gaze, Owen is able to show how messed and disturbed the state of Ireland has become after the worst of the troubles.