Description
| Product ID: | 9781848892835 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | IE |
| Title: | Travels with Tom Crean |
| Authors: | Author: Aidan Dooley |
| Page Count: | 269 |
| Subjects: | Individual actors and performers, Individual actors & performers, Memoirs, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Memoirs, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Ireland, Antarctica, English |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Aidan Dooley tells the story of his journey with Tom Crean; how his one-man play was written, and how it grew from an unknown show with an unknown actor into an award-winning hit that has been performed from Dublin to Dubai, and from Broadway to the Antarctic ice. TWO MEN Tom Crean, the Kerryman, whose phenomenal feats of bravery in the unexplored Antarctic earned him a rare medal for valour, pinned on him by King George. Aidan Dooley, the Galway man, who rejected a job in the bank for a life on the stage. ONE STORY. In this enthralling, funny and moving account, actor Aidan Dooley tells the story of his journey with Tom Crean. His one- man show about this unsung hero grew from an unknown play with an unknown actor into an award-winning hit that has been performed from Dublin to Dubai, and from Broadway to the Antarctic ice. This is a tale of fortitude and courage – on stage and in the savage beauty at the bottom of the world. |
| Imprint Name: | The Collins Press |
| Publisher Name: | Gill |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-09-23 |