What Drives Marina Carr?

Irish Voice, April, 2003 by Byrne, Lauren

Byrne, Lauren Irish Voice 04-15-2003 LEADING Irish playwright Marina Carr sees herself very differently from the way the rest of us see her. Named one of the 12 living Irish authors whose work is likely to be read 100 years from now, the 38-year-old author of nine plays laughed immoderately at my summation of her career. By phone from Philadelphia's Villanova University, where she's teaching for a semester, she says modestly, "I think it's a bit of an exaggeration to say I have taken people by storm.

I have a few defenders and people who like the work but, I mean, it's a very slow process." True, on this side of the Atlantic, Carr's name doesn't resonate quite as familiarly as that of Martin McDonagh's and Conor McPherson's. Although glowingly described as...

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