A dark but very funny comedy about the collapse of a family of feckless chancers and no-hopers.
Eddie and his three sons work nights. It could be said that they're a pretty dysfunctional family, but they don't care because they don't like each other very much. And when Eddie arranges for them all to pay a visit to their mother, the whole family starts to disintegrate in spectacular fashion.
Gerald Murphy's play Take Me Away was first staged by Rough Magic at Project Arts Centre, Dublin, in February 2004, transferring to the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, during the 2004 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it won an Edinburgh Fringe First Award. It also won the 2005 Stewart Parker Award.
- ISBN10 1854597973
- ISBN13 9781854597977
- Publish Date 15 April 2004
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Nick Hern Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 96
- Language English