That Trojan Queen | Marina Carr | TEDxDCU

Marina Carr speaks to us about That Trojan Queen, Hecuba the fabled Queen of Troy.


A member of Aosdána and Creative Director of DCU’s MA in Theatre Studies, Marina Carr is a celebrated playwright whose plays include The Cordelia Dream, Marble, 16 Possible Glimpses, Phaedra Backwards, On Raftery's Hill, Portia Coughlan, By the Bog of Cats, The Mai, Low In The Dark, Ullaloo, Ariel, and two plays for children, As Meat Is To Salt and The Giant Blue Hand.

Her many accolades include Irish Times Playwright Award 1998, The Susan Smith Blackburn Award for Portia Coughlan, Best New Irish Play at Dublin Theatre Festival 1994, The EM Foster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American/ Ireland Fund Award, The Macaulay Fellowship and The Hennessy Award.

Marina’s version of the Tolstoy classic, Anna Karenina, will run in the Abbey Theatre from 7th December 2016 to 28th January 2017.

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