Synopsis
Take Me Away
Published by Nick Hern Books
In a dysfunctional family where no-one seems to like each other very much, a father tries to persuade his three grown-up sons to visit their mother
He claims she's in hospital, but they're not so sure. In fact, the true circumstances of each of their lives become ever more murky
'Hugely entertaining and utterly convincing ... when writing is as good as Take Me Away you're swept along' ~ The Irish Examiner
'Excellent ... A very promising debut' ~ Guardian
'I suppose what one is always looking for on the Fringe is the distinctive new voice ... They crop up infrequently, and when you hit on one, the excitement is palpable. Gerald Murphy strikes me as being just such a dramatist ... Take Me Away ... is a cracker, at once wildly funny and desperately bleak ... I await Murphy's next play with considerable impatience' ~ Daily Telegraph
'ferociously funny ... laugh till it hurts' ~ Times