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Marina Carr's Shakespeare Conversations

Dear Colleagues, Students and Other Friends,
Marina Carr, John McGahern Writer-in-Residence at Dublin City University and St Patrick's College Drumcondra, will lead a series of lively lunchtime conversations on Shakespeare's plays on Monday 7th, Tuesday 15th and Monday 28th April.

The programme, which will feature some of Ireland's finest actors, is as follows:

Monday 7th April: Hamletfeaturing Owen Roe and Derbhle Crotty
1pm to 2.30pm in CG86, the Henry Grattan Building, Dublin City University.

Tuesday 15th April: King Learfeaturing Owen Roe
1pm to 2pm in C104, the Henry Grattan Building, Dublin City University.

Monday 28th April: Antony and Cleopatrafeaturing Owen Roe and Olwen Fouéré
1pm to 2.30pm in CG86, the Henry Grattan Building, Dublin City University.

Everyone is welcome, but places are limited. So please book your place by RSVPing to salis.office@dcu.ie (putting 'Hamlet', 'King Lear' or 'Antony and Cleopatra' in the subject line).

 

Marina Carr is one of Ireland's leading playwrights. Her plays include Low in the Dark, The Mai, Portia Coughlan, On Raftery’s Hill, By The Bog of Cats, Ariel, Woman and Scarecrow, The Cordelia Dream, Marble, and 16 Possible Glimpses. Her plays for children are Meat and Salt and The Giant Blue Hand. She has received numerous accolades including the Macaulay Fellowship, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the E.M. Forster Prize, the Irish Times Theatre Award and the Puterbaugh Fellowship. She is currently working on plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Ark. She is a member of Aosdána.

Owen Roe is one of Ireland's foremost film, TV and theatre actors. His numerous television credits include Ballykissangel, Val Falvey TD and Rásaí na Gaillimhe. Film credits include  Intermission, Breakfast on Pluto, Michael Collins, Sensation and When Harvey Met Bob. His illustrious stage career has featured productions of Faith Healer, Catastrophe, Festen, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Da and Glengarry Glenross (all at The Gate). He recently triumphed asKing Lear in The Abbey Theatre's (2013) production of the play, and moved Dublin audiences as an aged Romeo alongside Olwen Fouéré's aged Juliette in A Tender Thing (The Project Upstairs, 2014). 

Derbhle Crotty is another of Ireland's finest actors. Her numerous stage credits include The Dead, Tales of Ballycumber, Marble, An Ideal Husband, The Three Sisters, A Month in the Country, The Dandy Dolls, Beauty in a Broken Place, The Plough and the Stars, Bailegangaire, Portia Coughlan, The Mai, Katie Roche and The Well of the Saints (all at The Abbey Theatre). Other theatre work includes The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Young Vic and The Gaiety Theatre),The Field (The Olympia Theatre), The Silver Tassie, The Gigli Concert, Sive, The Good Father,Gaslight and The Playboy of the Western World (Druid), Dubliners, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof and Everyday (Corn Exchange), The Home Place, Dancing at Lughnasa (Gate Theatre), Hamlet, Macbeth, Penelopiad (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Alice Trilogy and The Weir (Royal Court Theatre). Film and television work includes Noble, Stella Days, Notes on a Scandal, Inside I’m Dancing, Any Time Now, Poorhouse, The Clinic and Gold in the Streets. 

Olwen Fouéré is an actor, writer and theatre artist of considerable acclaim. She describes her work as involving "the primary creation of image, text and personae" and is interested in how the performance contexts of mainstream theatre, the visual arts, music, dance theatre and literature can be navigated. Her current projects include Riverrun, which she adapted and directs and in which she performs the voice of the River Liffey (as depicted in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake), and the film Cassandra (with a script by Anne Enright). Other memorable theatre credits include By the Bog of Cats and Woman and Scarecrow (The Abbey Theatre) and Salomé (The Gate). She recently played an aged Juliette alongside Owen Roe's aged Romeo in the Project's production of A Tender Thing.

William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. If you want to read or re-read his plays, you can find them here.

 

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE & VENUE FOR THE KING LEAR CONVERSATION.
IF YOU HAVE ALREADY CONFIRMED ATTENDANCE AT THIS SESSION, YOU DO NOT NEED TO RECONFIRM.