Girl from the North Country by Bob Dylan Paperback Book

Description: Girl from the North Country by Bob Dylan, Conor McPherson Estimated delivery 4-14 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description The extraordinary musical by Conor McPherson, set in a 1930s Minnesota guesthouse, full of hope, heartbreak and soul, featuring the iconic songbook of Bob Dylan. Publisher Description Duluth, Minnesota. 1934. A community living on a knife-edge. Lost and lonely people huddle together in the local guesthouse.The owner, Nick, owes more money than he can ever repay, his wife Elizabeth is losing her mind, and their daughter Marianne is carrying a child no one will account for.So, when a preacher selling bibles and a boxer looking for a comeback turn up in the middle of the night, things spiral beyond the point of no return...In Girl from the North Country, Conor McPherson beautifully weaves the iconic songbook of Bob Dylan into a show full of hope, heartbreak and soul. It premiered at The Old Vic, London, in July 2017, in a production directed by Conor McPherson, and later transferred to the West End, Broadway, Australia, Ireland and toured the UK.Ravishing... [Bob Dylans songs have] never sounded quite so heartbreakingly personal and universal at the same time... the most imaginative and inspired use to date of a popular composers songbook in this blighted era of the jukebox musical... this is as close as mortals come to heaven on Earth— New York TimesThe idea is inspired and the treatment piercingly beautiful… two formidable artists have shown respect for the integrity of each others work here and the result is magnificent— IndependentA show that transports the soul… dialogue flows into a Dylan song and back again in a way that deepens the emotions of both… McPherson has come up with something bewitchingly original. Its pure stage magic— The TimesOriginal, beautiful and moving, combining the starkness of Steinbeck with haunting lyricism to create something restless, desperate, hopeful and sad— Financial TimesGut-wrenching, glorious… Dylans songs are brought to life in a spellbinding show— Radio TimesThe play and songs weave around one another, reflecting, deepening, revealing, in exquisitely soulful harmony… shades of ONeill and Steinbeck... dreamlike and bleakly beautiful— Broadway WorldBob Dylans back catalogue is used to glorious effect in Conor McPhersons astonishing cross-section of hope and stoic suffering... it is the constant dialogue between the drama and the songs that makes this show exceptional— Guardian Author Biography Conor McPherson is a playwright, screenwriter and director, born in Dublin in 1971.Plays include Rum and Vodka (Fly by Night Theatre Co., Dublin); The Good Thief (Dublin Theatre Festival; Stewart Parker Award); This Lime Tree Bower (Fly by Night Theatre Co. and Bush Theatre, London; Meyer-Whitworth Award); St Nicholas (Bush Theatre and Primary Stages, New York); The Weir (Royal Court, London, Duke of Yorks, West End and Walter Kerr Theatre, New York; Laurence Olivier, Evening Standard, Critics Circle, George Devine Awards); Dublin Carol (Royal Court and Atlantic Theater, New York); Port Authority (Ambassadors Theatre, West End, Gate Theatre, Dublin and Atlantic Theater, New York); Shining City (Royal Court, Gate Theatre, Dublin and Manhattan Theatre Club, New York; Tony Award nomination for Best Play); The Seafarer (National Theatre, London, Abbey Theatre, Dublin and Booth Theater, New York; Laurence Olivier, Evening Standard, Tony Award nominations for Best Play); The Veil (National Theatre); The Night Alive (Donmar Warehouse, London and Atlantic Theater, New York); and Girl from the North Country (Old Vic, London).Theatre adaptations include Daphne du Mauriers The Birds (Gate Theatre, Dublin and Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis), August Strindbergs The Dance of Death (Donmar at Trafalgar Studios), Franz Xaver Kroetzs The Nest (Young Vic, London), Chekhovs Uncle Vanya (West End, 2020) and Pawe Pawlikowskis Cold War (Almeida Theatre, 2023).Work for the cinema includes I Went Down, Saltwater, Samuel Becketts Endgame, The Actors, The Eclipse and Strangers.His work for television includes an adaptation of John Banvilles Elegy for April for the BBC, and the original television drama Paula for BBC2.Awards for his screenwriting include three Best Screenplay Awards from the Irish Film and Television Academy; Spanish Cinema Writers Circle Best Screenplay Award; the CICAE Award for Best Film Berlin Film festival; Jury Prize San Sebastian Film Festival; and the Méliès dArgent Award for Best European Film.Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author and painter, who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.Since bursting into the publics consciousness in the early 1960s, Dylan has sold more than 125 million records, won eleven Grammy Awards and has six entries in the Grammy Hall of Fame. His contribution to worldwide culture has been recognised with many awards, including the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature (the first songwriter to receive such a distinction); Americas highest civilian honour, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, from President Obama in 2012; a Special Citation Pulitzer Prize in 2008; an Academy Award in 2001 for Things Have Changed from the film Wonder Boys. He released his thirty-ninth studio album, Triplicate, in April 2017, and continues to tour worldwide. Details ISBN 1839041188 ISBN-13 9781839041181 Title Girl from the North Country Author Bob Dylan, Conor McPherson Format Paperback Year 2022 Pages 112 Edition 2022nd Publisher Nick Hern Books GE_Item_ID:138983328; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. 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