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Marina CarrThis year to mark St Brigid’s Day, the Centre Culturel Irlandais and the Embassy of Ireland in Paris present an evening of conversation with five eminent women of theatre: Marina Carr, Caitríona McLaughlin, Dunlaith Bird, Catherine Anne and Louise Vignaud.

Marina Carr’s award-winning plays (published by The Gallery Press) — largely poetic tragedies of rural Irish domestic life — have been produced around the world. Her works have been translated into French, German, and Norwegian. Early plays include Low in the DarkThis Love Thing and Ullaloo. The Gallery Press published The Mai, which won best new play award at the Dublin Theatre Festival; Portia Coughlan (Susan Smith Blackburn Award, 1997), By The Bog of Cats (1998, Irish Times/ ESB Award for Best New Play), On Raftery’s Hill (2000), Ariel (2002),  Woman and Scarecrow (2006), The Cordelia Dream (2008),Marble (2009), 16 Possible Glimpses (2011) and a version of Hecuba (2015).

Her awards include The Irish Times Best New Play Award, the Dublin Theatre Festival Best New Play Award 1994, a Macauley Fellowship, a Hennessey Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, an E.M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Puterbaugh Fellowship (2012) and in 2017 she was awarded the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize for Literature.

Music will be performed by acclaimed singer-songwriter Edel Meade who works in the field of jazz, folk and contemporary music. Her new album ‘Brigids and Patricias’, released on International Women’s Day last year, reflects on what it means to be a woman living in 21st-century Ireland, shaped by Irish history, folklore and contemporary society. Her album was listed as one of the 10 Best Irish Albums of the Year 2021 by The Irish Times.

7.30pm
Tuesday 1 February
in English and French
€7, reservation recommended

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