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About Marina Carr Plays 1
Product Description The first collection of plays by Marina Carr introduces the work of a major new voice in playwriting. Love in the Dark 'One of the most exciting, new and absolutely original aspects of Carr's writing is the manner in which the sexism of the language and religious imagery is exposed... Marina Carr is a playwright to be watched.' Sunday Tribune The Mai 'The writing is at once gentle and raucous... capable of articulating deep-seated woes and resentments in a manner you rarely find outside Eugene O'Neill.' Observer Portia Coughlan 'A play of precocious maturity and accomplishment.' Irish Times ' Portia Coughlan packs a hell of a punch. It hurts to look at it. But it has to be seen.' Irish Independent By the Bog of Cats . . . 'A poetic realism steeped in the past . . . Carr has an extraordinary ability to move between the mythic and the real.' Guardian 'A great play . . . a great work of poetry . . . the word should soon carry across both sides of the Atlantic.' Independent Review “One of the most exciting, new and absolutely original aspects of Carr's writing is the manner in which the sexism of language and religious imagery is exposed . . . A playwright to be watched.” ―The Sunday Tribune on Low in the Dark “A play of precocious maturity and accomplishment.” ―The Irish Times on Patricia Coughlan “A piece of poetic realism steeped in the past . . . an extraordinary ability to move between the mythic and the real.” ―The Guardian on the Bog of Cats “The writing is at once gentle and raucous . . . capable of articulating deep-seated woes and resentments in a manner you rarely find outside Eugene O'Neill.” ―The Observer on The Mai About the Author Marina Carr (born 17 November 1964) is an Irish playwright. She is well-known for her play, By the Bog of Cats which premiered in 1998, and her other published works.
