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MARY MANNING (1905 - 1999) |
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Nationality: Irish Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Born in 1905 in Dublin, Manning studied acting at the Abbey Theatre and later collaborated on a few plays with her childhood friend Samuel Beckett. In 1935 she moved to Boston with her husband, Mark DeWolfe Howe, an American law professor and the future editor of the papers of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. In Boston Manning worked as the drama director of Radcliffe College during World War II and later helped to establish the Poets' Theatre, which staged her adaptation of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake in 1952. After her husband died in 1967, Manning returned to Ireland and wrote theatre criticism for the Hibernia. In 1972, in the aftermath of Bloody Sunday, she published a somber and caustic essay about Belfast in the Atlantic Monthly. Manning later returned to the United States and died in Cambridge in 1999.
Plays by Mary Manning
Go Lovely Rose | ||
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| 1st Published: | in Massachusetts Review, Winter, 1988 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16106 | |||
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Happy Family | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1934 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #46205 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Outlook Unsettled | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22310 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 13 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
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Saint And Mary Kane, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dublin | 1968 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22311 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | from story by Frank O'Connor | |||||
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Storm Over Wicklow | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1933 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #46204 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Voice Of Shem, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Poets' Theatre, Cambridge Mass | 1955 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Harvard Univ. Press under the title "Passages from Finnegans Wake", 1957 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22312 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 8 f/m | |||||
Notes: | from Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. Published 1958 Faber & Faber, London under the title The Voice of Shem. Introduction by Denis Johnston | |||||
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Youth's the Season -? | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1931 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | in "Plays of Changing Ireland" by Macmillan New York, 1936 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22313 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 7 | ||
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Synopsis: | a lively and pointed satire on the Bright Young Things of 1920's Dublin | |||||
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