Four Plays: St Nicholas / This Lime Tree Bower / Rum and Vodka / The Good Thief

by Conor McPherson

This Lime Tree Bower features three young men from a small Dublin seaside town telling the overlapping tale of one fateful weekend. St. Nicholas was premiered in London and New York with Brian Cox in the solo role of the middle-aged theatre critic who gets caught up with a coven of modern-day vampires. Also in this volume are two shorter one-man Rum and Vodka, and The Good Thief.

Genres: Plays, Drama

72 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 1999

About the author

Conor McPherson is an Irish playwright and director.

Reviews

[The Pirate Ghost (Formerly known as the Curmudgeon) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Conor McPherson writes an emotionally charged, shocking and accurate portrayal of life. Rum and Vodka is an incredible look inside the soul of an alcoholic and addict. Few people are able to capture the true torture that living with addiction can be. Conor McPherson is likely one of the best young script writers of our time. The human content in these plays is well worth the book.

The warning would be, content, McPherson doesn't hold back, language, lots of foul words and concepts expressed in foul ways and these are plays, designed to get your attention and hold it. They are emotionally charged, moving and very well written but also very tragic.

A rare five stars and an even rarer short review. These speak for themselves.

[Corvyn Appleby]

utterly disinterested in the two "I'm a depressed alcoholic and here's me just kind of freestyling" monologues; the first one (which i believe is chronologically the fourth written) is particularly, painfully meandering. as for the crime stuff, they're alright stories, but i think it's very clear he wants to make crime movies but he didn't have the resources, so he turned them into monologues. if you don't believe me on that, he literally did remake one of these into a movie, so i don't know what else to tell you

[Johnny · Rating 4 out of 5]

Simple and brilliant monologue plays full of pathos, wit, introspection and truth. Terrific storytelling.