© Vagabonde, 2011
In 1943, Flann O'Brien tried his hand as a playwright with middling success. The parody Faustus Kelly was staged at the Abbey Theatre in January and his adaptation of Karel Capek's Insect Play ran at the Gaiety Theatre for a week. He began a third play, of which only one act was completed: Thirst. An homage to story-telling, Thirst is a serious study of after-hours drinking in a Dublin bar, suddenly interrupted by the Gardai.
Cahill and Company 1943
Translated into: French
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