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Marina Carr: Plays 3: Sixteen Possible Glimpses; Phaedra Backwards; The Map of Argentina; Hecuba; Indigo
Marina Carr
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Description for Marina Carr: Plays 3: Sixteen Possible Glimpses; Phaedra Backwards; The Map of Argentina; Hecuba; Indigo
Paperback. Imagines sixteen fleeting moments in Anton Chekhov's short life and work. The author retells the Phaedra myth to discover what shaped her. It offers a meditation on love and what happens when it is denied, or pursued and hunted down. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 126 x 26. Weight in Grams: 278.
This third richly varied collection of plays by Marina Carr was published to coincide with the Royal Shakespeare Company's premiere of Hecuba at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in September 2015.
Sixteen Possible Glimpses imagines sixteen fleeting moments in Anton Chekhov's short life and work. Phaedra Backwards retells the Phaedra myth to discover what shaped her. The Map of Argentina offers a meditation on love and what happens when it is denied, or pursued and hunted down. Hecuba was written in reaction to the bad press this Trojan queen receives, and reimagines how she may have suffered and reacted. Indigo ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571328819
SKU
V9780571328819
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Ref
99-48
About Marina Carr
Marina Carr was brought up in County Offaly. A graduate of University College Dublin, she has written extensively for the theatre. She has taught at Villanova, Princeton, and is currently Associate Professor in the School of English, Dublin City University. Awards include the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Macaulay Fellowship, the E. M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of ... Read more
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