Author: Tom Murphy
Year: 2006
Geography: Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom
Synopsis: The House is Tom Murphy’s searing drama of exile, return, and obsession. Set in 1950s Ireland, emigrant workers return each summer, caught between home and abroad, belonging nowhere. Among them, Christy Cavanagh—prosperous yet restless—fixates on the De Burca family and their house, seeing it as his lost paradise. His attempt to claim it, driven by memory and obsession, spirals into violence and tragedy, revealing the destructive cost of longing and displacement.
Publication: Murphy, T. (2006). The House. In Plays: 5 (pp. 182–293). London: Methuen Drama.
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