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Tom Murphy's early masterpiece, A Whistle in the Dark, depicts the reunion of an Irish family in Coventry: a picture of Irishmen 'over here' asserting themselves in one of England's post-war dream cities.
Michael Carney has left Mayo for Coventry, hoping to leave behind his homeland and his past with modest ambitions for a decent job and respectable family. However, he is relentlessly pursued by his past: a past that is both the flesh of his own family and the soured spirit of a haunted, marginalised people. With tragic inevitability, the impossibility of escape from his own dark history becomes all too obvious.
Produced to a mixture of acclaim and notoriety by Theatre Royal, Stratford East in 1961, Whistle in the Dark is now regarded as a modern classic.
Methuen 1997
Translated into: Portuguese – Brazilian
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