By The Bog Of Cats Play

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By the bog of cats play. By the bog of cats is a haunting and lyrical retelling of the classical medea myth. By the bog of cats is a tragic play about a woman who suffered abandonment and rejection and became imprisoned by her past resulting in the death of her brother and child. As a further insult she is being forced off of her land by carthage and his new father in law xavier cassidy. Tinker and bog resident hester swane has been jilted by carthage kilbride the father of her child.

Oh hesterwhat you did. Hester is a wild one who hankers to spend her life on the bleak landscape by the bog of cats yearning for her crazy long lost mother. The ghost fancier is watching her and she tells him that she used to play with the swan when she was young. A 2004 revival of the play in londons west end starred hollywood actress holly hunter in the role of protagonist hester swane.

By the bog of cats is a play by marina carr. Hester feels a great pull to the bog of cats because of its natural beauty and is proud to live there. By the bog of cats centers around the character of hester swane. The ghost fancier realizing that hester is still alive decides that he will have to come and collect her at duskimplying that she will die.

The plays eponymous setting the bog of cats is a unique environment inhabited by ghosts supernatural human beings and animals of all kinds. The play is a wild merciless mix of irish folklore and greek mythology. But hester is crafty and full of vengeance. The play opens with hester carrying a dead swan through the snow to bury it.