Meyer-Whitworth Award
1 appearances
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Edition 4 (1995) Winner
Billy Roche
ビリー・ロッシュ
Birī Rosshu
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1949-01-11 （Wexford, Ireland）
- Nationality
- Irish
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Wexford, Ireland
Career
- Occupations
- playwright, actor, singer
- Active Years
- 1988-2024
- Memberships
- Aosdána
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | John Whiting Award | A Handful of Stars | — | Arts Council England | 受賞 |
John Whiting Award
1989
Work:
A Handful of Stars
Organization:
Arts Council England
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
A Handful of Stars
1988 playSet in the sleazy pool room of a Wexford snooker club: adolescent longings lead to shotgun wedding and penal retribution.
youthful longingsmall-town cramping
Poor Beast In The Rain
1989 playSet in a Wexford betting shop on the day of the all-Ireland Hurling finals: rekindling lost dreams.
self-deceptionmiddle-age fretfulness
Belfry
1991 playRomantic comedy about a bell-ringing sacristan who falls in love with another man's wife.
romancetransformation
Tumbling Down
1986 novelNovel.
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Chekhovian detailexploring cramping effects of small-town culture
- Recurring Motifs
- Wexford settingsyouth and middle-age conflicts
Legacy
Irish playwright and actor best known for The Wexford Trilogy. Member of Aosdána.
Quotes
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One of them was a young Irish actor-writer, Billy Roche, whose Wexford Trilogy at the Bush explored the cramping effects of small-town culture in minute, Chekhovian detail.
Source: State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 (2007)
Trivia
- Former singer with The Roach Band.
- Tutored young writers with Eoin Colfer.