{"product_id":"solar-bones-9781350372528","title":"Solar Bones","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ewhy these bleak thoughts today, the whole \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eworld in shadow, everything undercut and \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003esuspended in its own delirium\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarcus Conway has come home to his kitchen in Louisburgh, Co. Mayo, . Everything seems normal, yet he is haunted by the feeling that nothing is quite right. Poring obsessively over the details of his relationships, his world and his work as an engineer brings him closer to an understanding of how the things and people he loves have come together, and how they have and must inevitably come apart. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the International Dublin Literary Award 2018, \u003ci\u003eSolar Bones\u003c\/i\u003e is Mike McCormack's multi-award-winning elegy to the merits of an ordinary life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis adaptation was first presented at the Kilkenny Arts Festival, and subsequently at the Abbey Theatre. The production won Best Actor for Stanley Townsend and Best Director for Lynne Parker at the Irish Times Theatre Awards.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael West\u003c\/b\u003e has written several plays in collaboration with Annie Ryan and The Corn Exchange including \u003ci\u003eMan Of Valour\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFreefall\u003c\/i\u003e (Best New Play at the Irish Theatre Awards and at the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild) and the world premiere adaptation of James Joyce's \u003ci\u003eDubliners\u003c\/i\u003e presented in association with the Dublin Theatre Festival 2012. Other work for The Corn Exchange includes EVERYDAY, \u003ci\u003eDublin By Lamplight\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFoley\u003c\/i\u003e, an adaptation of \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e (in a co-production with the Abbey) and \u003ci\u003eThe Seagull\u003c\/i\u003e which will premiere at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2016. He has translated or adapted many texts, among them \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage of Figaro\u003c\/i\u003e for the Abbey; a version of \u003ci\u003eDeath and the Ploughman\u003c\/i\u003e by the Bohemian 14th century writer Johannes Von Saaz for Christian Schiaretti of the TNP in Lyon and produced by SITI company and directed by Anne Bogart in the USA; and plays by Molière, Marivaux, Calderón and the contemporary French poet, Jean-Pierre Siméon. His latest translation, \u003ci\u003eForever Yours, Mary-Lou\u003c\/i\u003e by Michel Tremblay premiered at the Theatre Royal in Bath in March 2016.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Methuen Drama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50534637437202,"sku":"9781350372528","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0dc447a4-1de9-4334-8513-2cb7700f53b7.jpg?v=1731428483","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/solar-bones-9781350372528","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}