Marina Carr (born 17 November 1964) is a prolific Irish playwright.
She has written almost thirty plays, including By the Bog of Cats
(1998) which was revived at the Abbey Theatre in 2014.Carr was born in
Dublin, Ireland but she spent the majority of her childhood in Pallas
Lake, County Offaly, located adjacent to the town of Tullamore. Carr
grew up in a house filled with writing, painting and music. Her
father, Hugh Carr, was a playwright and studied music under Frederick
May, while her mother, Maura EibhlÃn Breathneach, was the principal
of the local school and wrote poetry in Irish, and it was said that
"there was a lot of literary rivalry."[3] As a child, Carr and her
siblings built a theatre in their shed, "we lay boards across the
stacked turf, hung an old blue sheet for a curtain and tied a bicycle
lamp to a rafter".[4] Carr recalls, "it was serious stuff, we even had
a shop and invited all the local kids in; the plays were very
violent!"[3]Carr attended University College Dublin, studying English
and philosophy. She graduated in 1987, and subsequently[when?]
received an honorary degree of Doctorate of Literature from her alma
mater.
She has written almost thirty plays, including By the Bog of Cats
(1998) which was revived at the Abbey Theatre in 2014.Carr was born in
Dublin, Ireland but she spent the majority of her childhood in Pallas
Lake, County Offaly, located adjacent to the town of Tullamore. Carr
grew up in a house filled with writing, painting and music. Her
father, Hugh Carr, was a playwright and studied music under Frederick
May, while her mother, Maura EibhlÃn Breathneach, was the principal
of the local school and wrote poetry in Irish, and it was said that
"there was a lot of literary rivalry."[3] As a child, Carr and her
siblings built a theatre in their shed, "we lay boards across the
stacked turf, hung an old blue sheet for a curtain and tied a bicycle
lamp to a rafter".[4] Carr recalls, "it was serious stuff, we even had
a shop and invited all the local kids in; the plays were very
violent!"[3]Carr attended University College Dublin, studying English
and philosophy. She graduated in 1987, and subsequently[when?]
received an honorary degree of Doctorate of Literature from her alma
mater.
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