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	Tom Murphy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tom Murphy, the mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1993 â“ 2005
		Tom Murphy, the former speaker of the house in the Georgia General Assembly
		Tom 'Slab' Murphy, chief of staff of the IRA Army Council.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tom_Murphy (111 words)

	A Whistle in the Dark - Tom Murphy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Irish playwright Tom Murphy’s debut is still a forceful piece of realist theatre forty years after its first staging.
		Murphy’s dialogue is vivid and varied, exploring nuances in expression and language which allow him to establish character dynamics.
		Though it is effective, this is once again in contrast with where Pinter went with the same basic ingredients, and in laying things out as schematically as he does, Murphy is occasionally guilty of minor narrative contrivances and character hiccoughs which require a paradoxical suspension of disbelief (given the realism of the rest of it).
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater2/WhistleintheDark.htm (961 words)

	Theater \| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Tonight one of them is determined that the story, a distancing link to a painful past, will at last find an end, allowing the old crone and her caretakers to move forward.
		Murphy came to prominence in Ireland in the 1960s but has proved less exportable than his contemporary, Brian Friel, or the generation-younger Conor McPherson and Martin McDonagh.
		But there is subtlety in the way he fills in the foreground details (the repeatedly rejected tea, the chamber pot that must be emptied) while keeping the economically pressing background (a computer plant down the road, where Dolly’s pick-ups are picketing) vague.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/arts/theater/documents/02147495.htm (726 words)

	Genuine Murphy: Famous Murphys
		Murphy, John Benjamin (1857--1916) Surgeon; born near Appleton, Wis. He spent his medical career in Chicago, where, in addition to his surgical practice, he taught at Rush Medical College and Northwestern University Medical School and was on the surgical staff at Mercy Hospital and Cook County Hospital.
		Murphy and collaborator George Minot received one-half the 1934 Nobel Prize in physiology for devising dietary liver and liver extract therapy for patients with pernicious anemia (George Hoyt Whipple was the other recipient).
		Murphy, Eddie OF, (1891-1969) Murphy was an everyday outfielder on the 1913 and 1914 pennant-winning A's and led the AL with eight pinch hits as a member of the 1919 Black Sox.
	www.murphysites.com /genuine/GM-famous.html (3825 words)

	Conversations on a Homecoming - Tom Murphy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Bailegangaire, Tom Murphy’s Conversations on a Homecoming was first produced in 1985.
		It is not his first visit, but his misty-eyed remembrance of the heady days when he left seem to suggest that he has decided to remain at home this time, possibly even rebuilding the club in the process and restoring it to its former glory.
		Old friends Tom (Adrian Dunbar), Junior (Frankie McCafferty) and Liam (Vincent Higgins) join him for a drink and a night of conversation, but they do not share his sentiments about either the Ireland of the present or that of the past.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater4/Conversations.htm (654 words)

	Guyer Murphy - playwright
		World War II has ended and Tom, just discharged from the Army, returns to his young wife, Margaret, full of hope and enthusiasm, and dreams of a bounteous future.
		He is, he explains, one of the children they will have, and he fills them in so completely about their past and present livesand the future which awaits themthat Tom and Margaret soon find themselves moving from incredulity to panic.
		Increasingly aghast as one horror is casually (and hilariously) piled on another, Tom rushes for the door, determined to escape before any of this can occur only to be pursued by his unloving but pragmatic son who suddenly realizes that without a father, his own existence, chancy as it may be, will never happen.
	www.doollee.com /PlaywrightsG/GuyerMurphy.htm (617 words)

	Stage Preview: 'The Gigli Concert' playwright inspired by opera, dreams of beauty
		Murphy's first success (there have been two dozen plays since) was "A Whistle in the Dark." Turned down by the Abbey Theatre, it was staged by the adventuresome Theatre Royal in the East End of London.
		Murphy calls the rejection "a good thing for me, because I would have settled for the Irish situation and domicility here." (He talks like that, seeming to savor the words, his mind darting ahead or sideways.)
		Murphy has some contempt for critical stratagems, such as the "solicitous phrase" that misrepresents by categorizing.
	www.post-gazette.com /ae/20020531murphy4.asp (992 words)

	Aisle Say (Boston): BAILEGANGAIRE
		Sugan's artistic director, Carmel O'Reilly, is largely successful in drawing the audience into the shared sorrows of Murphy's characters and their secret torments through careful ensemble work and verbal counterpoint by three actresses with complementary styles.
		Murphy's plays will probably never be popular, particularly in the today's theatre of shorter and shorter works, with less depth and simplistic solutions.
		But most current writers in the Irish canon acknowledge their debt to Murphy's unflinching look at the current complexity of the fractured Irish soul.
	www.aislesay.com /MA-BAIL.html (642 words)

	Irish theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A member of his court, John Ogilby was charged with bringing over a company from London and was made the first Irish Master of the Revels.
		As a result, Irish playwrights and actors of real talent were drawn to London.
		The 18th century saw the emergence of two major Irish dramatists, Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, who were two of the most successful playwrights on the London stage in the 18th century.
	www.wikisearch.net /en/wikipedia/i/ir/irish_theatre.html (2179 words)

	A FEMINIST READING OF THE PLAYS OF TOM MURPHY (1)
		The settings of both playwrights’; drama are often enclosed spaces which function as metaphors of the psyche, of the tomb of spiritual death and womb of rebirth.
		Murphy’s construction of the characters of John and ‘Mother’ risks reinforcing this separation: woman’s sphere is ‘nature’, John’s that of complex political abstraction.
		Murphy would appear to be following Foucault’s lead in that the characters in his plays represent the insurrection of subjugated knowledges as correctives to the dominant discourses of history.
	www.ucd.ie /~irthfrm/akelly.htm (8788 words)

	She Stoops to Folly - LA Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		With "She Stoops to Folly," Irish playwright Tom Murphy transforms Oliver Goldsmith's 1766 novel "The Vicar of Wakefield" into a wonderfully absorbing play--considerably shorter and less all-encompassing than Charles Dickens' "Nicholas Nickelby," but very, very similar.
		The Vicar pulls himself together to deliver to the prisoners a sermon on suffering and "its peculiar rewards to the unhappy." In this remarkable speech, which is pure eloquence, the Vicar manages to find comfort in suffering without the enshrinement of martydom, a nifty and rare theological trick.
		If the playwright errs, it is at the end, when the family regains its lost stature.
	www.geocities.com /broadway/stage/7870/shestoops.html (673 words)

	FindArticles search for ""Tom Murphy""
		Byline: Tom Murphy Gray and tan interiors are the norm in U.S. vehicles today, but the auto industry is on the verge of a customization trend that...
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	www.findarticles.com /p/search?tb=art&qt=%22Tom+Murphy%22 (744 words)

	ireland.com / Explore Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Tom Murphy had bet on Galway to do so, more out of sentiment than sense, he now feels.
		And though separated when Noel went to university and Tom to the sugar factory, they were life-long friends until Noel's death in 1996.
		Murphy says he is gratified they feel sufficiently interested to do so and is very pleased this younger generation also consider him one of their more important influences.
	www.ireland.com /explore/festivals/2001/1001/theatre0917a.htm (2326 words)

	consider.net - Message details
		It's a conundrum that arises from the title of the Abbey Theatre's playwright fest - "Tom Murphy: a celebration" - in which Ireland's National Theatre is spending the next two months giving over all its resources to one of its theatrical giants.
		Murphy has a particular correspondence to the Greek body of work.
		The Tom Murphy season is at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin (00 353 1878 7222).
	www.consider.net /forum_new.php3?Action=Display&newDisplayURN=200110220039 (789 words)

	A FEMINIST READING OF THE PLAYS OF TOM MURPHY (1)
		In Murphy’s apocalyptic theatre the climax is brought about by the stripping away of unnecessary detail, the loss of illusion, and the climax itself is a leap into a different plane of action from what has gone before.
		The effects of colonisation are seen in many of Murphy’s plays, where the male characters are split and emasculated, torn between cultures, languages, worlds, consigned to eternal childishness or lashing out at the twin narratives of Church and State which have dominated their psyches and parlaysed their imaginations.
		Murphy wants his characters to speak the truths of their lives, to talk about the dead, the unbaptised and stillborn buried in fields all over Ireland in order to dispel myths of identity rooted in a past, sustained by secrecy, guilt and fear.
	www.ucd.ie /irthfrm/akelly.htm (8788 words)

	Tom Murphy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		For the young playwright, recently back from a United Nations Youth Association forum in The Hague, and visits to New York, Sweden and Norway, there was no incongruity.
		The world may be an oyster, but Murphy knows that a young blade needs to be determined to open it up.
		But the nub of Tom Murphy now is a new script, as yet in first draft, growing out of his experience finishing school and finding himself alone and travelling.
	www.mpx.com.au /~frankmckone/murphy.html (564 words)

	PICT's 'Major Barbara' joins hit ranks in Galway
		Irish playwright Tom Murphy, whose "The Drunkard" debuted at this year's Galway Arts Festival, crouches in front of an outdoor portrait sculpture of himself done by France's Bernard Pras out of found objects.
		Fate and PICT have taken me to three Murphy plays in the past year -- "The Gigli Concert" at PICT, "Conversations on a Homecoming" at the Dublin Theatre Festival and "Bailengangaire" at New York's Irish Rep. But nothing prepared me for his newest, "The Drunkard," a remarkable balancing act between comic style and emotional heart.
		Murphy has taken the material of an 1830s American melodrama of the same name, two other old melodramas and snippets from authors ranging from Shakespeare to Bouccicault to Eugene Field, and created something both traditional and, well, post-modern.
	www.post-gazette.com /ae/20030722galway0722fnp3.asp (1478 words)

	village voice > theater > Tom Murphy’s Eire Force by Charles McNulty
		Murphy's latest work, The House —presented in the Abbey's Murphy Season alongside A Whistle in the Dark, The Gigli Concert, Bailegangaire, The Sanctuary Lamp, and The Morning After Optimism —confronts the corruptive force of newfound wealth.
		Murphy failed to follow up this qualified success with more of the same, which accounts in part for his muted reputation in the States.
		Though neither playwright is married to the talking-head format, they share what Walsh calls "the bundle of anxieties" of men in their thirties, who are looking at their fathers' failings and wondering how to escape the same soup.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0204/mcnulty.php (1591 words)

	Current Season (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Murphy's imagery is as rich and evocative as the warm, red glow of the lamp that remains long after the play is over"
		Murphy is not afraid to let them go on at length and to take on big questions emotionally...
		Playwright John Millington Synge (1871-1909) was a major figure of the Irish Literary Renaissance and together with WB Yeats and Lady Gregory, is strongly associated with the history of the Abbey Theatre.
	home.earthlink.net /~poreill47/current_season.htm (1321 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Theater/Arts / Sugan Theatre captures subtleties of 'Sanctuary'
		Nor is Murphy, who turns the confessional on its head in ''The Sanctuary Lamp," making it a place of comfort and nurture rather than of punishment and guilt.
		But there is still hope in Murphy's world for what the church at its best represents -- not only a sanctuary from the sadness of the world, but a place to gather the hope and strength needed to leave the church and get back into the life of the world with a lighter soul.
		I haven't seen or read enough of Murphy's work to know whether I agree with O'Reilly about his place at the top of the impressive list of Irish writers, but after seeing this and a couple of other Sugan productions of his plays, it isn't surprising that he isn't as well known as the others.
	www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2005/02/09/sugan_theatre_captures_subtleties_of_sanctuary (762 words)

	2002-03 Theatre Season Reviews
		Tom Murphy, the playwright and director, has written a play of ideas in the manner of fellow Irishmen Yeats and Beckett, full of desperation and lyric beauty.
		Murphy begins the play in the middle of the story; he leaves the audience to find its own feet.
		Murphy and his company occasionally misstep, but they tell their stories with thought and understanding.
	www.nytheatre.com /nytheatre/archweb/arch2003_b.htm (12697 words)

	The Abbey Theatre: Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Playwright and actor Hilary Fannin has written three stage plays, Mackeral Sky (Bush Theatre, London), Sleeping Around (a collaboration with Stephen Greenhorn, Abi Morgan and Mark Ravenhill, premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London), and Doldrum Bay (premiered at the Peacock Theatre in May 2003).
		Tom MacIntyre's association with the National Theatre began in 1971 with EYE-WINKER, TOM TINKER (Peacock Theatre, 1971).
		Tom Murphy's plays premiered at the National Theatre include FAMINE (Peacock Theatre, 1968), THE SANCTUARY LAMP (Abbey Theatre, 1975), THE BLUE MACUSHLA (Abbey Theatre, 1980), THE GIGLI CONCERT, (Abbey Theatre, 1983), TOO LATE FOR LOGIC (Abbey Theatre, 1989), THE PATRIOT GAME (Peacock Theatre, 1991), SHE STOOPS TO FOLLY (after Goldsmith) (Abbey Theatre, 1996).
	www.abbeytheatre.ie /news/awards.html (1224 words)

	STAGE: Brotherly hate - Evening Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Irish playwright Tom Murphy's debut is still a forceful piece of realist theatre 40 years after its first staging.
		One of the most acclaimed Irish plays of the past half-century, A Whistle In The Dark cemented the reputation of the author of The Patriot Game, and is centred round an Irishman living in Coventry in the early 60s.
		Instead, Benny and Bjrn collaborated with playwright Catherine Johnson on a genuine, old-fashioned musical full of their greatest hits.
	www.eveningtimes.co.uk /lo/extra/7015667.html (473 words)

	The Patriot Ledger at SouthofBoston.com
		Tom Murphy is regarded as perhaps the best Irish playwright of the past 40 years, although his plays have never been as popular as Brian Friel's.
		That's probably because Murphy's have a deeper, darker tone of existential anguish and a sharper intellectual edge.
		The play is being presented this month by Boston's Súgán Theater Company in the new Roberts Studio Theater at the Boston Center for the Arts in the South End.
	ledger.southofboston.com /articles/2005/02/09/life/life01.txt (666 words)

	The Cherry Orchard - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - Methuen
		Tom Murphy is an award-winning Irish playwright whose work includes The Sanctuary, Bailegangaire, and The Wake." />
		Tom Murphy's Irish vernacular adaptation of Chekhov's most popular play allows us to re-imagine the events in the last days of Anglo-Irish colonialism, giving "The Cherry Orchard a vivid new life within our own history and social consciousness.
		Tom Murphy is an award-winning Irish playwright whose work includes "The Sanctuary, "Bailegangaire, and "The Wake.
	www.libreriauniversitaria.it /BUS/0413774031/The_Cherry_Orchard.htm (99 words)

	LRB \| Karel Reisz Remembered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Tom Murphy (playwright) : He presented himself as a worrier.
		He wasn't holier than holy about the text, but he was quite deliberate in the way he went about making a world out of what the playwrights had opened up.
		John Guare (playwright) : When I first met Karel, 37 years ago, I knew that he was the first adult I'd met who made the fact of being an adult more interesting.
	www.londonreviewofbooks.com /v24/n24/mult03_.html (3836 words)

	the loy: June 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Like someone says you're a provincial playwright, when in fact your show is currently and undeniably playing in the metropolis.
		The way Murphy writes â“ with lots of unfinished sentences â“ is harder to act than when a writer writes in complete sentences all the time.
		But now Mercier and playwright Alan Archbold think the time is ripe to redress the balance and offer a vision of the GAA as positive force it is in many Dublin fans lives.
	www.human.tv /theloy/2005_06_01_archive.html (5897 words)

	2003-04 Theatre Season Reviews
		Tom, meanwhile, is sitting in front of his TV in his underwear, chomping on an assortment of "happy pills" and seemingly impotent to move.
		Director Ross Peabody and playwright Eric Michael Kochmer are to be roundly congratulated for delivering one of the most exciting theatre experiences in town.
		But at the end of the act, this not-too-terribly troubled man mirthfully shoots himself in the head at a family dinner, and returns home eight months later (the beginning of the second act) speaking in the jargon of one who has spent his past eight lifetimes as a high roller in a Vegas hotel.
	www.nytheatre.com /nytheatre/archweb/arch2004_p.htm (12848 words)

	The Cherry Orchard - Anton Checkhov, in a new version by Tom Murphy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Chekhov is no stranger to the Irish stage, and indeed this very apt tale of landowners, peasants, and social change has been adapted to an Irish setting as well as being staged using its original setting.
		Though Murphy’s text is good, achieving a linguistic sensibility which crosses Chekhov with Ireland without losing the sense of either, Patrick Mason’s direction leaves altogether too much space for speculation.
		Chekhov may have reveled in subverting the conventions of plot and character in 1904, but there was an internal consistency which held the work together.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater6/CherryOrchard(2).htm (788 words)

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