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Marina Carr

washingtonpost.com | 1 month ago

Theater review: Nelson Pressley on 'By the Bog of Cats' at 1st Stage in McLean

...show doesn't quite fill out the formidable tragic stature that Irish writer Marina Carr built into her much-praised script. (Carr is frequently described as Ireland's top female...

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The Australian | 1 month ago

Tour de farce

...Generation encompassed a clutch of names that, like Walsh's, are internationally recognised. There's Marina Carr, whose stirring 1998 play, By the Bog of Cats, took ideas from Medea...

I don't know where she came from or who she is, possibly just another of the several selves that inhabit us all," says Carr, who also wrote "The Mai" and "On Raftery's Hill."

Theater: 'Woman and Scarecrow' at Solas Nua; 'Fat Gay Jew' at Charter Theatre washingtonpost.com | 10 months ago

washingtonpost.com | 1 month ago

For co-creator Jim Jacobs, 'Grease' is still the word (even if it's cleaned up)

...sure this show is good," recalls Krikstan, referring to the company's latest effort -- Irish dramatist Marina Carr's "By the Bog of Cats," running Friday through Feb. 28. The show,...

washingtonpost.com | 1 month ago

Arts Preview: Washington area theater shows this spring

...France. At Sidney Harman Hall. Through April 10. 5 -- "By the Bog of Cats" Set in rural Ireland, Marina Carr's work is a haunted retelling of Europides' Medea. At 1st Stage. Through...

Wikipedia | 1 month ago

McCarter Theatre

...Edward Albee, Nilo Cruz, Christopher Durang, Regina Taylor, Beth Henley, Dael Orlandersmith, Steven Dietz, Marina Carr, John Henry Redwood, Eric Bogosian, Theresa Rebeck and Emily Mann.

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

Marina Carr

...Greek allusion or are loose retellings of classical Greek myths. In Carr's early work, she experiments with style as she seeks to find her own. Low in the Dark (1989), her first...

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

Irish theatre

...Joe O Byrne, Peter Sheridan, Brian Friel, Stephen Rea, Garry Hynes, Martin McDonagh, Conor McPherson, Marina Carr, Jimmy Murphy, Billy Roche and Gabriel Byrne. In the 1990s and...

Wikipedia | 3 months ago

Olwen Fouere

...the Mai in the world premieres of By the Bog of Cats and The Mai which were written for her by playwright Marina Carr. Her film appearances are few and include the 1985 film Time after...

Wikipedia | 5 months ago

Emily Mann (director)

...Singer's Meshugah (adaptor and director) with Elizabeth Marvel The American premiere of The Mai by Marina Carr The world premiere of Anna Deveare Smith's '''', (also at the Mark Taper...

Wikipedia | 7 months ago

The Oresteia in the arts and popular culture

...playwright Stephen Berkoff wrote an adaption of ''Agamemnon '' in 1977. Irish playwright Marina Carr loosely borrows the plot of the first two parts of the Oresteia in her 2002...

washingtonpost.com | 10 months ago

Style on the Go - May 8, 2009: Kid-Friendly Activities for Mother's Day Weekend

...participants and schedule of classes, visit http://www.dcyogaweek.com. Irish writer Marina Carr's 2006 play has only two characters of consequence: Woman, who is on her deathbed,...

washingtonpost.com | 10 months ago

Theater: 'Woman and Scarecrow' at Solas Nua; 'Fat Gay Jew' at Charter Theatre

...languishes and fights the inevitable in "Woman and Scarecrow," the 2006 play by Irish dramatist Marina Carr that's coming to Solas Nua. Keeping vigil with Woman (the character, who...