This Lime Tree Bower

by Conor McPherson

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...

Winner of a Thames TV Award, a Guinness/National Theatre Ingenuity Award and the Meyer Whitworth Award.

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

Genres: Plays, Drama

87 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 11, 1996

About the author

Conor McPherson is an Irish playwright and director.

Reviews

[Aria · Rating 2 out of 5]

** I've only read This Lime Tree Bower since it's the one my lecturer required me to read so my rating is based on that play only.

A rather simple play about the possible effects that certain stages of life can have on people, and perhaps masculinity and the ways it can be achieved. Though, it certainly has an interesting way of storytelling which unfortunately, makes it feel a little dissociated and not so 'active'. By this, I mean that for me, it isn’t as powerful when read as it may be when performed. Nevertheless, the voices of the three main characters who are of different ages but are all male, are differentiated nicely and the whole thing comes about neatly.

[tatum]

logging this solely as this lime tree bower. liked it!

[Taylor Allgeier-Follett · Rating 4 out of 5]

(Note: I read a different edition that was just This Lime Tree Bower but couldn’t find it on here)
Very good and interesting play, great material if one is interested in like masculinity and violence

[Steven · Rating 3 out of 5]

Often amusing tale of a jaded Irish philosophy teacher, a coming of age school boy, and his criminal older brother.