Best Irish plays?

With DruidO'Casey coming soo, it got me thinking about Irish plays I should be reading or hoping to see someday.

I know Samuel Beckett. A little Brian Friel. Shining City by Conor McPherson. Martin McDonagh.

What else would you recommend?

I loved McDonagh's dark comedy The Cripple of Inishmaan. McPherson's The Seafarer is another favorite. You definitely cannot go wrong with Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

J.M. Synge, Playboy of the Western World. Or for something more recent, I thought The Ferryman was brilliant.

I'd take a look at Enda Walsh's oeuvre.

George Bernard Shaw is Irish but I don't think it's what people think of when they talk of an Irish playwright. The same with Oscar Wilde.

Translations by Brian Friel is one of my favorite plays. I also love Philadelphia Here I Come.

> George Bernard Shaw is Irish but I don't think it's what people think of when they talk of an Irish playwright. The same with Oscar Wilde.

I've lived in Ireland. Irish people think of Wilde as Irish, I can assure you.

B212323 said: "Jarethan said: "The Pillowman. My Donough’s greatest work, which IMO is saying something.

The Ferryman.

To me, they are far superior to any others that I have seen"

The Ferryman was written by Jen Butterworth who's a Brit (though heavily influenced by his Irish partner Laura Donnelly)."

I stand corrected. I would add The Beauty Queen of Leenane.

I just can’t get into Brian Friel (I have been bored by every show of his I have seen) and have also been bored at performances of the only O’Casey plays I have seen.

Druid O’Casey is up on TDF now.

Three by Brian Friel: Dancing at Lughnasa (the play is better than the movie),
Faith Healer, and Philadelphia Here I Come.

Also Synge's one act, Riders to the Sea.