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Hugh Leonard nel 2004. Hugh Leonard, all'anagrafe John Joseph Byrne (Dublino, 9 novembre 1926 – Dalkey, 12 febbraio 2009) è stato un drammaturgo, sceneggiatore e saggista irlandese
Hugh Leonard (9 November 1926 – 12 February 2009) was an Irish dramatist, television writer, and essayist. In a career that spanned 50 years, Leonard wrote nearly 30 full-length plays, 10 one-act plays, three volumes of essay, two autobiographies, three novels, numerous screenplays and teleplays, and a regular newspaper column.
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13 feb 2009 · Hugh Leonard, the prolific Irish playwright, memoirist, travel writer and dyspeptic newspaper columnist whose autobiographical play “Da” won four Tony Awards in 1978, including best play, died...
13 feb 2009 · Thu 12 Feb 2009 19.01 EST. For a time, in the mid- to late 1970s, Hugh Leonard (a pseudonym for John Keyes Byrne), who has died aged 82, was hailed as the best living Irish dramatist. He was ...
Da is a 1978 memory play written by Hugh Leonard . The play had its American premiere at the Olney Theatre Center in Olney, Maryland on 7 August 1973. [1] [2] [3] Its New York City premiere came at the off-off-Broadway Hudson Guild Theatre in 1978, and this production transferred to Broadway shortly after the completion of its run.
Hugh Leonard - who was the first Irish playwright to win a Tony Award and who wrote prolifically for the stage, television, big screen, and books and print media - was born in Dublin in 1926 and grew up in the small seaside town of Dalkey. He claimed to have written his first play at the…
14 feb 2009 · After the Abbey Theatre rejected The Italian Roadin 1954, he adopted the pseudonym Hugh Leonard in submitting another play, The Big Birthday, which the Abbey staged in 1956. The Abbey also ...
