In his basement study in Dublin's gentrified southside, Tom Murphy is struggling to find a word, an idea, anything, to sum up the creative impulse behind his dark, inscrutable work. One corner of the murky room is a shrine to the plays that launched his career in the 1960s: a cluster of elegant, framed posters bearing the titles A Whistle in the Dark, Famine, The Gigli Concert.In the other corner is a scale…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:39AM on May 4, 2016