Portia Coughlan

Author : Marina Carr
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571389198
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Portia Coughlan written by Marina Carr and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 1997. 'Carr's harrowing play has the scale and anguish of myth, and the immediacy of a contemporary anecdote.' Independent on Sunday There's a wolf tooth growin in me heart and it's turnin me from everywan and everthin I am. Portia Coughlan lives life in monstrous limbo, haunted by a yearning for her spectral twin brother lying at the bottom of the Belmont river, unable to find any love for her wealthy husband and children, seeking solace in soulless affairs, deeply afraid of what she might do. Portia Coughlan premiered on the Abbey Theatre's Peacock Stage, Dublin, in April 1996 and transferred to the Royal Court Theatre, London, in May that year. It was revived at the Almeida Theatre, London, in October 2023. 'Taut and haunting, funny and sad . . . Carr plays with time and place to resonant, ultimately devastating effect.' The Stage 'One of the most important Irish plays of the twentieth century.' Arts Review 'Marina Carr goes to a deep place that has not just to do with society now but that touches an inner tragedy of existence. The female quality of her writing comes through not only in the way she writes about women, it's in the physicality in her writing. She is right in there with the cycles of life, with the blood and the dirt.' Joyce McMillan, New York Times

Author : Cathy Leeney
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780953425778
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Theatre of Marina Carr written by Cathy Leeney and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2003 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first collection of articles to be published on the theatre of Marina Carr, a major contemporary Irish playwright whose work is highly acclaimed in Ireland and internationally for its poetic energy and its remarkable theatrical imagination." "These essays examine Carr's highly original voice, and place her plays in the context of current theatre in Ireland and abroad. They raise lively debate on contemporary representation of 'Irishness' on the stage, on the current state of Irish theatre, on the impact of female authorship on the canon of Irish theatre, and on Carr's portrayal of characters who are fundamentally at odds with the world around them."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Paddy Lyons
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039118410
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book No Country for Old Men written by Paddy Lyons and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a country of emigration and diaspora, in the 1990s Ireland began to attract immigration from other parts of the world: a new citizenry. By the first decade of the twenty-first century, the ratio between GDP and population placed Ireland among the wealthiest nations in the world. The Peace Agreements of the mid-1990s and the advent of power-sharing in Northern Ireland have enabled Ireland's story to change still further. No longer locked into troubles from the past, the Celtic Tiger can now leap in new directions. These shifts in culture have given Irish literature the opportunity to look afresh at its own past and, thereby, new perspectives have also opened for Irish Studies. The contributors to this volume explore these new openings; the essays examine writings from both now and the past in the new frames afforded by new times.

Author : Marina Carr
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 057131872X
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book By the Bog of Cats written by Marina Carr and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the mysterious landscape of the bogs of rural Ireland, Carr's lyrical and timeless play tells the story of Hester Swane, an Irish traveller with a deep and unearthly connection to her land. Tormented by the memory of a mother who deserted her, Hester is once again betrayed, this time by the father of her child, the man she loves. On the brink of despair, she embarks on a terrible journey of vengeance as the secrets of her tangled history are revealed. 'A piece of poetic realism steeped in the past... Carr has an extraordinary ability to move between the mythic and the real.' Guardian 'A great play... a great work of poetry... the word should soon carry across both sides of the Atlantic.' Independent By the Bog of Cats premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 1998. It was revived at Wyndham's Theatre, London, in November 2004.

Author : Hiroko Mikami
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781904505235
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Ireland on Stage written by Hiroko Mikami and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on Irish theatre in the second half of the twentieth century

Author : Marina Carr
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571318371
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Marina Carr Plays 1 written by Marina Carr and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of plays by Marina Carr introduces the work of a major new voice in playwriting. Low in the Dark 'One of the most exciting, new and absolutely original aspects of Carr's writing is the manner in which the sexism of the language and religious imagery is exposed... Marina Carr is a playwright to be watched.' Sunday Tribune The Mai 'The writing is at once gentle and raucous... capable of articulating deep-seated woes and resentments in a manner you rarely find outside Eugene O'Neill.' Observer Portia Coughlan 'A play of precocious maturity and accomplishment.' Irish Times ' Portia Coughlan packs a hell of a punch. It hurts to look at it. But it has to be seen.' Irish Independent By the Bog of Cats... 'A poetic realism steeped in the past... Carr has an extraordinary ability to move between the mythic and the real.' Guardian 'A great play... a great work of poetry... the word should soon carry across both sides of the Atlantic.' Independent

Author : Melissa Sihra
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319983318
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Marina Carr written by Melissa Sihra and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book locates the theatre of Marina Carr within a female genealogy that revises the patriarchal origins of modern Irish drama. The creative vision of Lady Augusta Gregory underpins the analysis of Carr’s dramatic vision throughout the volume in order to re-situate the woman artist as central to Irish theatre. For Carr, ‘writing is more about the things you cannot understand than the things you can’, and her evocation of ‘pastures of the unknown’ forms the thematic through-line of this work. Lady Gregory’s plays offer an intuitive lineage with Carr which can be identified in their use of language, myth, landscape, women, the transformative power of storytelling and infinite energies of nature and the Otherworld. This book reconnects the severed bridge between Carr and Gregory in order to acknowledge a foundational status for all women in Irish theatre.

Author : Christopher Murray
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815606437
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Twentieth-Century Irish Drama written by Christopher Murray and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides an overview of Irish theatre, read in the light of Ireland's self-definition. Mediating between history and its relations with politics and art, it attempts to do justice to the enabling and mirroring preoccupations of Irish drama.

Author : Fintan O'Toole
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781904505037
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Critical Moments written by Fintan O'Toole and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2003 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few figures are more respected and quoted internationally than Fintan O'Toole, both as a controversial and provocative political commentator and theatre critic. This extensive collection brings together a wide range of his writings going back to 1980. It provides a privileged insight into the great moments of contemporary Irish theatre, marking the contributions of playwrights (Carr, Murphy, Friel, McGuinness), directors (Hynes, Byrne), actors (Hickey, McKenna), and designers (Vanek, Frawley). It also demonstrates his unsettling of the usual "canon," with his thoughtful arguments promoting certain playwrights who deserve to up be there with Ireland's best, including Antoine O'Flatharta, Paul Mercier, Dermot Bolger, and David Byrne.

Author : Anne F. O'Reilly
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781904505075
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Sacred Play written by Anne F. O'Reilly and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examination of the soul and spirituality in Irish theatre