This Lime Tree Bower is an early play by Conor McPherson

Conor McPherson

Conor McPherson is an Irish playwright and director.-Life and career:McPherson was born in Dublin, . He was educated at University College Dublin, McPherson began writing his first plays there as a member of UCD Dramsoc, the college's dramatic society, and went on to found Fly By Night Theatre...

. The title is taken from the poem of the same name

This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison

"This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison" was a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge during 1797. The poem discusses a time in which Coleridge was forced to stay beneath a lime tree while his friends were able to enjoy the countryside...

 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla...

. Originally produced and directed at the Crypt Theatre Dublin by the author

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 himself, it later transferred to the Bush Theatre

Bush Theatre

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 London

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. Conor McPherson has won Evening Standard Award for ‘Most Promising Playwright

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’ 1997 Outer Critics Circle Award

Outer Critics Circle Award

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 for ‘Best New Play’ 1998-1999 Olivier Award for ‘Best New Play’ 1999. The play is an account of coming of age in small town Ireland

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, told by three young men. The central characters are Joe, the youngest, who is bored with school and looking for adventure. His brother Frank is working full time in the family chipper hatches “his great plan” to solve all the family’s troubles. Lastly, their friend Ray the debauched university lecturer who is dating their sister Carmel.

Conor McPherson turned this play into a movie called Saltwater which he also directed. The film

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 starred Brian Cox and was shot in Dublin. Saltwater won the CICAE award for best film at the Berlin International Film Festival

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