Eden
Written byEugene O'Brien
Characters
  • Billy
  • Breda
Date premiered24 January 2001 (2001-01-24)[1]
Place premieredAbbey Theatre, Dublin
Original languageEnglish
GenreDrama
Settinga town in the Irish Midlands

Eden is an Irish play, written by Eugene O'Brien in 2001. It premiered at the Peacock Theatre/Abbey Theatre in Dublin on 24 January 2001,[1] and very successfully was put on in the West End of London and Broadway in New York City.[2] In 2001 the play won the Irish Times Best New Play of the Year Award and Stewart Parker Prize.[3]

Synopsis

The play is centred on an unhappily married young couple living in a small town in the Irish Midlands over a weekend, and is told through perspectives, with many monologues. The husband, Billy, is a frequent drinker who always heads out to the local pubs on weekends. He is infatuated with a younger woman named Imelda Egan. The wife, Breda, has recently lost a lot of weight, and wants to regain the affections of her husband by heading out on the town for the first time in years and meeting him.[1][4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Eden". Playography Ireland. Irish Theatre Institute. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
  2. ↑ "Eugene O'Brien". Curtisbrown.co.uk. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  3. ↑ "Eugene O'Brien". Doollee.com. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  4. ↑ Moroney, Mic (27 January 2001). "Eden". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 April 2019.


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