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Arena's Sean Rocks, Hecuba star Aislín McGuckin, Marina Carr and musician Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh

Listen: Playwright Marina Carr talks to Arena

For a special edition of RTÉ's Arena live from Dublin's Project Arts Centre, Sean Rocks talks to acclaimed playwright Marina Carr about her formidable career and her provocative new adaptation of the Greek tragedy Hecuba.

Theatre • 01 Oct 19

Join Arena for an audience with Marina Carr

On Monday next, September 30th at 7pm in the Project Arts Centre, Marina Carr will be in conversation with Arena's Sean Rocks, discussing on her new work Hecuba, and her formidable career to date - the event is free, but ticketed...

Theatre • 27 Sep 19

Aislín McGuckin stars in Rough Magic's Hecuba (Pic: Ros Kavanagh)

Hecuba - Marina Carr and Lynne Parker reimagine a Greek legend

Rough Magic's Lynne Parker writes for Culture about her new production of Marina Carr's Hecuba, just before they turn the Greek tragedy on its head for this year's Dublin Theatre Festival...

Dublin Theatre Festival • 30 Sep 19

Something for the Weekend: Zara Devlin's Cultural Picks

Rising actress Zara Devlin, acclaimed in The Gate Theatre's production of The Glass Menagerie and soon to appear in Rough Magic's new adaptation of Hecuba at this year's Dublin Theatre Festival, shares her choice cultural picks...

Something For The Weekend • 12 Sep 19

Louise O'Neill - the Abbey's 2018 programme includes an adaptation of her novel Asking For It

Abbey Theatre raises curtain on ambitious 2018 programme

After winning kudos from audiences and critics alike for their inaugural programme in 2017, Directors of the Abbey Theatre Graham McLaren and Neil Murray have announced an ambitious and eclectic slate for the year ahead.

Theatre • 29 Nov 17

Playwright Marina Carr wins $165,000 Windham-Campbell Prize

Dublin-born Playwright Marina Carr has been awarded one of the world's richest literary prizes, the Windham-Campbell Prize, worth $165,000 (€155,000).

Culture • 01 Mar 17

Lisa Dwan stars in Marina Carr's adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, currently playing on the Abbey stage

Anna Karenina: Marina Carr Adapts Tolstoy's Epic Romance

In a recent interview with John Kelly on RTÉ's The Works, we got an insight into Marina Carr, the established Irish playwright, who has written heroine-centered dramas that fuse the Irish midlands with well-worn stories coopted from the Greeks.

Culture • 12 Jan 17

Lisa Dwan stars in The Abbey Theatre production of Anna Karenina

Win tickets to see Anna Karenina at The Abbey

This year's big Christmas show at Dublin's Abbey Theatre is an eagerly anticipated new version of Tolstoy's classic novel Anna Karenina from one of Ireland's leading playwrights, Marina Carr - and we've got tickets to give away.

Culture • 08 Dec 16

Playwright Marina Carr talks to The Works Presents

In the penultimate episode of the current series, John talks with renowned Irish playwright, Marina Carr, famed for her dramatic character-driven plays 'By the Bog of Cats' and 'On Raftery's Hill'.

Culture • 22 Dec 16

Barbara Brennan as Nurse O'Farrell by Emma Donoghue in Signatories.

Competition: Win tickets to 1916 theatrical event Signatories

We're giving away tickets to one of the Irish theatrical events of the year.

Culture • 30 Sep 16

Marina Carr