Title Controle Manual Description Controle Manual, a play with acid and provocative humor that questions what it means to be human, portrays a young couple, Mark and Violet, at a time when the excessive use of technology to correct imperfections, or simply to improve physical abilities, had become possible and normal. However, the couple triesContinue reading “Controle Manual”
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Como criar sua própria Sereia
Title Como criar sua própria Sereia Description In Como criar sua própria sereia, Marina Carr tells us a short story about the imaginary world of a young girl and her friend mermaid. She’s taken by imagination after seeing an advertisement on the newspaper where they would send a mermaid to anyone who bought a certainContinue reading “Como criar sua própria Sereia”
Interview with Marina Carr
Title Interview with Marina Carr Description Marina Carr (1964- ) is a playwright from Dublin. Carr holds a BA in English and Philosophy from the University College Dublin, alongside an honorary Doctorate of Literature from the same institution. Carr’s debut play, Ullaloo, was published in 1989, and since then, she has acquired an incredibly prolificContinue reading “Interview with Marina Carr”
Interview with Stacey Gregg
Title Interview with Stacey Gregg Description Stacey Gregg (1983- ) is a writer and director from Belfast. Gregg has a BA in English from the University of Cambridge and an MA in Documentary Film-Making from Royal Holloway. Having written numerous plays for theatre, her first full-length play, Perve, was performed by Abbey Theatre in MayContinue reading “Interview with Stacey Gregg”
Interview with Patricia Burke Brogan
Title Interview with Patricia Burke Brogan Description Patricia Burke Brogan (1932-2022) was a playwright, novelist, and artist from County Clare. As a novice, Brogan was assigned to work at a Magdalene Laundry during the late 1950s. Aghast by the horrible living conditions and mistreatment experienced by the women working there, Brogan decided to leave theContinue reading “Interview with Patricia Burke Brogan”
Meu nome, posso te falar o meu nome?
Title Meu nome, posso te falar o meu nome? Description The play, with two actors, permeated by analepses and soliloquies, deals with the loneliness of an elderly grandfather, Andy, a former World War I soldier on behalf of the British crown, and the young Andrea, who leaves her grandfather in Derry in search of aContinue reading “Meu nome, posso te falar o meu nome?”
Interview with Eimear McBride
Title Interview with Eimear McBride Description Eimear McBride (1976- ) is an Irish writer. At the age of 17, McBride moved to London for university, where she earned a BA from Drama Centre London. Her debut novel, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing (2013), is written as a stream of consciousness and portrays the storyContinue reading “Interview with Eimear McBride”