Hanging Gardens, The

"I do extensive research. I read the King James Bible for Observe The Sons Of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme, the Divine Comedy for Innocence, and the Koran for Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me. I undertake these big tasks because that is my job, and if I decide, as I did decide that the most creative way to enter a novelist’s mind, as was the challenge in The Hanging Gardens, is to write a novel, then write the novel [published as Arimathea, 2013). The killer with most research for a play is the massive amount that must be discarded so that the text can focus on what is most effectively spoken onstage."

- Frank McGuinness, in interview