In Hunger, the twelfth play in Victoria Tester's fifteen-play New Mexico Ghost Play Cycle, a Victorian American woman returns to Ireland as a romantic tourist, only to be confronted by the fierce ghost of her own mother, surviving beneath a Famine cottage.
Hunger, like Tester's two other longer Irish-themed works concerning the Famine, is marked by what has been described as "her own fierce brand of magical realism" and a "rich vein of life-giving green." Hunger, a one-act play, is performed by two female characters, Mamo and Brigid, in a simple setting suggestive of a Famine cottage..
Hunger, like Tester's two other longer Irish-themed works concerning the Famine, is marked by what has been described as "her own fierce brand of magical realism" and a "rich vein of life-giving green." Hunger, a one-act play, is performed by two female characters, Mamo and Brigid, in a simple setting suggestive of a Famine cottage..
