MARINA CARR   (1964 - )


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Plays by Marina Carr

MARINA CARR
Ariel
1st Produced:
2002
Company:
1st Published:
The Gallery Press, Ireland
2002
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Fermoy Fitzgerald, a midlands TD, haunted by the ghosts of the past and enthralled by dreams of the future, will sacrifice everything in pursuit of political power - even the lives of his wife and family. On the day of his daughter Ariel's sixteenth birthday, he makes a terrifying bargain with God
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MARINA CARR
By The Bog Of Cats
1st Produced:
1998
Company:
1st Published:
The Gallery Press, Ireland
1999
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
5
Parts Other:
1 g, extras
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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.
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MARINA CARR
Cherry Orchard
1st Produced:
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Company:
1st Published:
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-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
the story of mortgage with the grounds of the proud house being sold to pay off debts
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MARINA CARR
Low In The Dark
1st Produced:
1989
Company:
1st Published:
in The Crack In The Emerald, Nick Hern Books, London
1990
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
Low in the Dark explores the myths and misconceptions between the sexes. In Bender and Binder's world, men are a necessary irritant. Their time is spent reliving their relationships, for the most part unsuccessful events. Baxter and Bone, ignorant and innocent of women, spend their time imagining the Ideal Woman. Orchestrating this furore is Curtains, who has her own version of the story of Man and Woman.
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MARINA CARR
Mai, The
1st Produced:
1994
Company:
1st Published:
The Gallery Press, Ireland
1995
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
7
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
An accomplished, beautiful forty-year-old woman, The Mai has always sought an exceptional life. Robert, her cellist husband, has always felt stifled by The Mai's ideals of perfection. After seventeen years he leaves her, whereupon she sets about building a dream house in the hope that he will one day return to her. From her fairytale castle, The Mai waits by the window for her dark-haired prince to return. Set in the inspiring surrounds of the West of Ireland, on the banks of the legendary Owl Lake, we enter this world on the day of Robert's return after an absence of four years. In the midst of Mai's and Robert's troubled reunion are the idiosyncratic characters that comprise the family. Irreverent and unapologetic, the opium-smoking one-hundred-year-old matriarch, Grandma Fraochlan, presides over all. The "Spanish Beauty," as she is known, with her "ancient and fantastical memory" and mythical presence, reminds us that the past is looming ever present. Her daughters, Agnes and Julie, meddle in the affairs o
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MARINA CARR
Meat and Salt
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
play for 8-12 year olds
One Act
Parts:
Male
5
Female
8
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
When the scrupulously honest Little Daughter tells the tyrannical Big Daddy she loves him as meat loves salt he banishes her from his Kingdom. She falls onto the Mountains of the Moon Hounds and after many adventures, she meets The Young King who falls in love with her honesty. They agree to marry and her father is invited to the feast only to find a surprise waiting for him.
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MARINA CARR
On Raftery's Hill
1st Produced:
2000
Company:
1st Published:
The Gallery Press, Ireland
2000
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Genre:
Tragedy of epic proportions
Tragedy
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
In Marina Carr's epic tragedy of rural life, three generations of the Rafterys live together in the midlands of Ireland. It's a closely knit farming community where hatred and rumours of incest, stillborn children, and abused families seem more common than love and affection.
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MARINA CARR
Portia Coughlan
1st Produced:
1996
Company:
1st Published:
in The Dazzling Dark: New Irish Plays, Faber & Faber, London
1996
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
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 . . .
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MARINA CARR
This Love Thing
1st Produced:
1991
Company:
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
A lighthearted analysis of love as seen through the eyes of Renaissance artists and some of the characters they depicted. Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Jesus and the Mona Lisa herself struggle with the big questions of love and art.
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MARINA CARR
Ullalloo
1st Produced:
1991
Company:
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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MARINA CARR
Woman And Scarecrow
1st Produced:
Royal Court Upstairs, London
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber, London
2006
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
A woman - gaunt and ill, haggard after giving birth eight times - faces death. What was life? What was love? What else could have been? Full of mordant, bitter humour, this is a passionate threnody from one of Ireland's leading playwrights.
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