Da (Paperback)

Dublin, the 1960s. After Da's funeral, Charlie returns to his childhood home only to find his father's ghost stubbornly unwilling to leave the house. As the events of Charlie's youth and Da's troubled relationship with Mother are replayed, we discover the darkly comic, bittersweet relationship that existed between father and son.

"A beguiling play about a son's need to come to terms with his father and himself ... in a class with the best of Sean O'Casey."--"New York Times"

Hugh Leonard is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and novelist. His plays include the Tony Award-winning "Da" (1973) and Tony-nominated "A Life" (1979). Other plays include "A Leap in the Dark" (1957), "A Walk on the Water" (1960), "The Saints Go Cycling In" (1965), "The Au Pair Man" (1968), "The Patrick Pearse Motel" (1971) and "Time Was" (1976). Other works include the screenplays for TV adaptations of "Great Expectations," "Nicholas Nickleby," "The Moonstone," "Wuthering Heights" and "Good Behaviour." His novelisation of his 4-part drama "Parnell and the Englishwoman" (BBC) won the 1992 Sagittarius Award. He has published two volumes of autobiography, "Home Before Night" and "Out After Dark" as well as his novel "A Wild People."

Since its formation as the National Theatre of Ireland by W.B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory in 1904, the Abbey Theatre has been the cradle of new drama in Ireland for successive generations of Irish playwrights. From the early works of Synge and O'Casey to those by writers at the cutting edge of Irish theatre today, new plays have remained at the very core of the National Theatre's artistic policy and have helped to establish and maintain its reputation as Ireland's foremost cultural institution.