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Marina Carr

Marble is Marina’s seventh premiere at the Abbey. Previous plays first performed here are Ullaloo, The Mai, Portia Coughlan, By the Bog of Cats, Ariel and Meat and Salt. Other plays include On Raftery’s Hill (Druid/Royal Court), Low in the Dark (Project Arts Centre), Woman and Scarecrow (Royal Court), The Cordelia Dream (RSC) and The Giant Blue Hand (The Ark). Awards include The Macaulay Fellowship, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the E.M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has held the Heimbold Chair of Irish Studies at Villanova. She was the 1932 fellow at Princeton for 2008. She currently teaches playwriting at Trinity College Dublin where she is an honorary professor. A member of Aosdána, Marina lives in Kerry with her husband and four children.


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  • Olwen Fouéré and Mark Lambert in ULLALOO by Marina Carr, directed by David Byrne, on the Peacock Stage, 1991.  Photo: Fergus Bourke.
  • Bronagh Gallagher and Marion O'Dwyer in PORTIA COUGHLAN by Marina Carr, directed by Garry Hynes, on the Peacock Stage, 1996. Photo: Amelia Stein.
  • Derbhle Crotty in PORTIA COUGHLAN by Marina Carr, directed by Garry Hynes, on the Peacock Stage, 1996. Photo: Amelia Stein.
  • Peter Hanly and Aisling O'Sullivan - Marble - the ABBEY stage.  Picture by Colm Hogan
  • Aisling O'Sullivan and Derbhle Crotty - Marble - the ABBEY stage.  Picture by Colm Hogan
  • Peter Hanly and Stuart McQuarrie - Marble - the ABBEY stage.  Picture by Colm Hogan
  • Aisling O'Sullivan - Marble - the ABBEY stage.  Picture by Colm Hogan
  • Derbhle Crotty - Marble - the ABBEY stage.  Picture by Colm Hogan

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