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Northern Star; Heavenly Bodies; Pentecost

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"Stewart Parker was a playwright whose sense of history and elegance of wit and feeling were unusual in the British Theatre" (Observer)

About the Author

Stewart Parker was born in Belfast in 1941. During the early sixties at Queen's University he was active in a group of young writers which included Seamus Heaney and Bernard Mac Laverty. His first stage play Spokesong (1975) won him the 1976 Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright Award and his TV drama I'm a Dreamer, Montreal (1979) won the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize. His stage plays include Catchpenny Twist (1977), Nightshade (1980), Pratt's Fall (1983), Northern Star (1984), Heavenly Bodies (1986) and Pentecost (1987), which won the Harvey's Irish Theatre Award. He died in London in 1988. The Stewart Parker Trust Awards, established in his memory, are awarded each year to encourage new Irish writing for the theatre.

Reviews

"Stewart Parker was a playwright whose sense of history and elegance of wit and feeling were unusual in the British Theatre." --Observer