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MARINA CARR (1964 - ) |
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Nationality: Irish Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: The Agency (London) Ltd |
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Plays by Marina Carr |
16 Possible Glimpses | ||
| 1st Produced: | 30 Sep 2011 | |||||
Company: | Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival | |||||
| 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 | #132717 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | In 16 POSSIBLE GLIMPSES, a series of dialogues and domestic scenes flash through the life of Chekhov, the master story teller, master playwright, doctor, lover, brother, son. Glimpse; oceans of champagne, coffins, snow, beautiful gardens, a black monk travelling through time, trees, vodka, women, women, women and a life in which eternity is the only thing worth talking about. | |||||
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Ariel | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | The Gallery Press, Ireland, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6238 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
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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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By The Bog Of Cats | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | The Gallery Press, Ireland, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6239 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | 1 g, extras | |||||
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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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Cherry Orchard | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
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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 | #6240 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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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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Cordelia Dream, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Wilton's Music Hall, London | 2008 | ||||
Company: | RSC | |||||
| 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 | #94310 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | depiction of a modern Lear descending into madness before emerging wiser | |||||
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Giant Blue Hand, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #117046 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Two boys, a giant blue hand and an aunt in pink wellingtons | |||||
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Low In The Dark | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | in The Crack In The Emerald, Nick Hern Books, London, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6241 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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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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Mai, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | The Gallery Press, Ireland, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6242 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 7 | ||
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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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Marble | ||
| 1st Produced: | Feb 2010 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-8222-2417-4 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #116346 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A premonition of impending disaster precedes a collision between the conscious and subconscious lives of two married couples. Hidden fantasies and passions conflict with the calls of friendship and fidelity. The characters' everyday existences and their struggles to accept mortality provide the backdrop to MARBLE's exploration of the tragedy of dying of an empty heart. | |||||
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Meat and Salt | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
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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 | #6243 | |||
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Genre: | play for 8-12 year olds One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 8 | ||
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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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On Raftery's Hill | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | The Gallery Press, Ireland, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6244 | |||
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Genre: | Tragedy of epic proportions Tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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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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Portia Coughlan | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | in The Dazzling Dark: New Irish Plays, Faber and Faber, London, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6245 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 6 | ||
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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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Quartet | ||
| 1st Produced: | Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh: Fringe Festival, Scotland, EUR >>> | 19 Aug 2010 | ||||
Company: | Impossible Things before Breakfast | |||||
| 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 | #118187 | |||
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Genre: | 30 min reading | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | about an international diplomat's romantic encounters throughout the 1950s and 1960s. | |||||
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This Love Thing | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||||
Company: | Fishamble Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #6246 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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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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Ullalloo | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||||
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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 | #6247 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Woman And Scarecrow | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Court Upstairs, London | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55711 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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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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