Hugh Leonard, playwright

The Irish playwright Hugh Leonard (1926-2009) described writing as “an illness, a virus that no science can isolate and cure”.…

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Hugh Leonard’s play, The Poker Session, treats the themes of betrayal and blame. The playwright discussed some of the play’s…

Hugh Leonard’s stage adaptation betrays his life-long attachment to the work of Charles Dickens, especially Great Expectations. “My great-aunt Julia…

“I advertise daily for an au pair, but it seems to be a dying genre. I’m afraid you were inimitable,…

The Barracks, Hugh Leonard’s adaptation of the 1963 novel by John McGahern, premiered in 1969 at the Dublin Theatre Festival.…

“Oh, Miss, I am dead. The two men…they have killed-“ An impossible murder in the fog on Waterloo Bridge. So,…

Following his success in adapting Joyce for the stage in Stephen D. in 1962, Hugh Leonard went on to adapt…

Hugh Leonard and James Joyce: Stephen D “Stephen D is a most difficult and intricate play, which will stand or…

The Late Arrival of the Incoming Aircraft (also The Quick) A one act play by Hugh Leonard. The action takes…

There is at least one curiosity and one question in the awards listed in our page on Hugh Leonard’s “Awards…

Mick and Mick, Hugh Leonard’s play of 1966, provides a good example of the difficulties of cataloguing his work. In…

Summer Towards the end of Hugh Leonard’s life he expressed the view that Summer was his best play. This article…

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