Two raw and revealing plays about family, Ireland, secrecy and shame, by the award-winning playwright Carys D. Coburn.
Set in 1980s Ireland, B¦N is a reworking of Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba. Five sisters, bound together under their mother's watchful eye, spend their lives longing for escape, power and the one local eligible bachelor. Dark, raucous and with a tender heart, B¦N was nominated for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2025.
In Absent The Wrong, a woman looking for her child is lied to; an artist pitches a memorial that is never built; a landlord raises rents; and thousands of children disappear. An intimate and sweeping play about seventy years of adoptees and their search for answers, it premiered at the Abbey Theatre as part of the 2022 Dublin Theatre Festival, where it was named Best New Production.
| ISBN: | 9781839044830 |
| Publication date: | 9th October 2025 |
| Author: | Carys D Coburn |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | NHB Modern Plays |
| Genres: |
Modern and contemporary plays (c 1900 onwards) Plays, playscripts |
Two raw and revealing plays about family, Ireland, secrecy and shame, by the award-winning playwright Carys D. Coburn.
Set in 1980s Ireland, B¦N is a reworking of Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba. Five sisters, bound together under their mother's watchful eye, spend their lives longing for escape, power and the one local eligible bachelor. Dark, raucous and with a tender heart, B¦N was nominated for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2025.
In Absent The Wrong, a woman looking for her child is lied to; an artist pitches a memorial that is never built; a landlord raises rents; and thousands of children disappear. An intimate and sweeping play about seventy years of adoptees and their search for answers, it premiered at the Abbey Theatre as part of the 2022 Dublin Theatre Festival, where it was named Best New Production.
Bán and Absent the Wrong features in the following genres: Modern and contemporary plays (c 1900 onwards), Plays, playscripts
Bán and Absent the Wrong is available in Paperback
Bán and Absent the Wrong was written by Carys D Coburn and published by Nick Hern Books
Bán and Absent the Wrong has 240 pages
Yes it is part of NHB Modern Plays series
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