Cite the title of the play. If your entire paper is based on this play, this step should be done during the introduction of your paper. Cite the title by putting it in italics if it is a full-length play that is published on its own. Place it in quotation marks if it is a short play, or it is published in an anthology or a book with many plays. Note: This play should be in italics.
Conor McPherson's "The Seafarer" takes the classic Irish subject of the wandering visitor and places it in a modern setting on Christmas Eve.
Make it clear who the author of your source is each time your borrow information from that source. If it's the first time you are mentioning this author in your paper, you should include the author's first and last name in a signal phrase. If it's not the first time you've mentioned this author, you only need the last name, and you can choose to use it in a signal phrase, or in parenthesis after the information that is being borrowed.
Cite clearly the page number your borrowed information comes from. Do not do this in the signal phrase. Instead, include it in parenthesis after the borrowed information has been stated. Note that it does not matter if you borrow information with a direct quote, or you use your own words -- you must cite where the information came from:
When Sharky asks Lockhart about hell, Lockhart responds with a long dialogue comparing hell to being buried in the sea and never being able to die (McPherson 80-1).
Lockhart describes hell as being "locked in a space that's smaller than a coffin. Which is lying a thousand miles down under the bed of a vast, icy, pitch black sea. You're buried alive in there" (McPherson 81).