Events: Literature & Comedy
 Marina Carr Literature |
SAT 2 MAY LITERATURE Marina Carr Date Sat 2 May Marina Carr will read from a selection of her work followed by a question and answer session. Playwright Marina Carr has recently had her seventh premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin with Marble while her children's play The Giant Blue Hand has been running at The Ark, the cultural centre for children in Dublin. Previous plays first performed at the Abbey are Ullaloo, The Mai, Portia Coughlan, By the Bog of Cats, Ariel, Meat and Salt. Other plays include On Raftery's Hill (Druid Theatre Company/Royal Court, London), Low in the Dark (Project Arts Centre), Woman and Scarecrow (Royal Court) and The Cordelia Dream (Royal Shakespeare Company RSC). Awards include The Macaulay Fellowship, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the E.M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has held the Heimbold Chair of Irish Studies at Villanova. She was the 1932 fellow at Princeton for 2008. She currently teaches playwriting at Trinity College Dublin where she is an honorary professor. A member of Aosdána, Marina lives in Kerry with her husband and four children. |
 Des Bishop |
SUN 3 MAY COMEDY Lisa Richards presents Des Bishop
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