Monday the 12th
Frank McGuiness Books and Plays
The Factory Girls (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1982) , Baglady (Abbey, 1985) , Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Abbey, 1985; Hampstead Theatre, London, 1986) , Innocence (Gate Theatre, Dublin, 1986) , Cathaginians (Abbey, 1988; Hampstead, 1989) , Mary and Lizzie (RSC, 1989) , The Bread Man (Gate, 1991) , Someone Who'll Watch Over Me (Hampstead, West End and Broadway, 1992) , The Bird Sanctuary (Abbey, 1984) , Mutabilitie (RNT, 1997) , Gates of Gold (Gate Theatre, Dublin, 2002. UK premiere Finborough Theatre, 2004). , Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen (RNT, 1987) , Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (Gate, 1988; RSC and world tour, 1994) , Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen (Roundabout Theatre, Broadway, 1994) , A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (Playhouse Theatre, Broadway, 1997) , Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov (Gate and Royal Court, 1990) , Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov (Field Day Production, 1995) , Yerma by Federico García Lorca (Abbey, 1987) , The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht (Gate, 1987) , The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht (RNT, 1997) , Electra by Sophocles (Donmar and Broadway) , The Storm by Alexander Ostrovsky (Almeida) , Dancing at Lughnasa (adaptation of play by Brian Friel)
Frank McGuiness Links
Frank McGuinness - Irish writers Online
Site http://www.irishwriters-online.com/frankmcguinness.html
Frank McGuinness was born in Buncrana, Co Donegal, in 1953. His plays include The Factory Girls (1982); Baglady/Ladybag (1985); Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Dublin, The Abbey Theatre,1985); Innocence (1986); Carthaginians (1988); Mary and Lizzie (1989); The Bread Man (1990); Someone Who'll Watch Over Me (1992); and Dolly West's Kitchen (1999). He has adapted Yerma (Lorca, 1987); Rosmersholm (Ibsen, 1987); Peer Gynt (Ibsen, Dublin, The Gate Theatre, 1988); Three Sisters (Chekov, 1990); and The Threepenny Opera (Brecht/Weil, 1991). He has also written for television, including Scout (BBC, 1987)); and The Hen House (BBC, 1989). His awards include several for Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, including The London Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright; the Prix de l'Intervision and the Prix de l'Art Critique at the 1990 Prague International Television Awards for The Hen House. He has published two poetry collections, Booterstown (Loughcrew, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 1994); and Stone Jug (Gallery, 2003). He is a member of Aosdána and lives in County Dublin
Frank McGuinness - Playwright
Site http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsM/McGuinnessFrank.htm
Manuscript collection: National Library of Ireland. Frank McGuinness was born in Buncrana, Co. Donegal and now lives in Dublin and lectures in English at University College Dublin. He has written extensively for Irish Theatre both original scripts and tra...
Frank McGuinness - Irish Playography
Site http://www.irishplayography.com/search/person.asp?PersonID=2076
Frank McGuinness was born in Buncrana, Co. Donegal and now lives in Dublin and lectures in English at University College Dublin. He has written extensively for Irish Theatre both original scripts and translations.
Frank McGuinness
Site http://tacit.caltech.edu/STWOM/mcguinness.html
Frank McGuinnes was born on July 29, 1953, in Buncrana, Donegal, Ireland. He attended the National University of Ireland, University College, in Dublin, receiving BA and M.Phil in medieval studies. He began writing poetry in 1974, and from 1977 until 1979 taught linguistics and drama at the University of Ulster, Corelaine, Northern Ireland. He lectured in Old and Middle English at the University College, Dublin, 1979-1980, then moved to St. Patrick's College in Maynooth, where he lectures in English to this day. McGuinness has been awarded the London Evening Standard's Most Promising Playwright Award in 1985 for Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme; Harvey's Award; the Ewart-Bigg's Peace Prize, the Irish-American Literary Prize in 1992; a Fringe First Award; and an Antoinette Perry Award nomination for Best Play for 1993 for Someone Who'll Watch Over Me
Frank McGuinness - Gallery Press
Site http://www.gallerypress.com/Authors/Fmcguinness/fmcguinn.html
Frank McGuinness was born in County Donegal in 1953 and now lives in Dublin. His plays include The Factory Girls, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching towards the Somme, Innocence, Carthaginians, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, The Bird Sanctuary, Mutabilitie, Dolly West's Kitchen and Gates of Gold. He has adapted works of Lorca, Chekhov, Brecht, Strindberg, Pirandello and Sophocles. His version of Ibsen's A Doll's House won a 'Tony' award in 1997. The Gallery Press has published his three collections of poems Booterstown (1994), The Sea with No Ships (1999) and The Stone Jug (2003).
Frank McGuinness - Faber & Faber
Site http://www.faber.co.uk/author_detail.html?auid=771
Frank McGuinness was born in Buncrana, County Donegal, in 1953. He lives in Dublin and lectures in English at University College, Dublin. His many plays include The Factory Girls (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 1982), Baglady (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1985), Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Abbey Theatre, 1985; Hampstead Theatre, London, 1986, and winner of the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright), Innocence (Gate Theatre, Dublin, 1986), Carthaginians (Abbey Theatre, 1988; Hampstead Theatre, London 1989), Mary and Lizzie (RSC, 1989), The Bread Man (Gate Theatre, Dublin, 1991), Someone Who'll Watch Over Me (Hampstead, West End and Broadway, 1992), The Bird Sanctuary (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1992), Mutabilitie (Royal National Theatre, 1997) and Dolly West's Kitchen (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1999; Old Vic, 2000). His numerous translations include Chekhov's Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya, Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, Ibsen's Rosmersholm, Sophocles's Electra and Ostrovsky's The Storm. Faber publishes many of McGuinness's plays in its Contemporary Classics series, in Frank McGuinness Plays 1 and Plays 2.
Frank McGuinness - Arts Council
Site http://www.artscouncil.ie/aosdana/biogs/literature/frankmcguinness.html
Born in Buncrana, Co. Donegal, in 1953. His plays include The Factory Girls (1982), Baglady/Ladybag (1985), Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (1985), which won the Evening Standard Award for most promising playwright, Innocence (1986), Carthaginians (1988), Mary and Lizzie (1989), The Bread Man (1990), Someone Who'll Watch Over Me (1992), The Bird Sanctuary (1994), Mutabilitie (1997), Dolly West's Kitchen (1999), Gates of Gold (2002) and The Stone Jug (2003). Speaking Like Magpies premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon in 2005. He has also written award-winning plays for television. His first collection of poetry, Booterstown, was published in 1995, and was followed by The Sea With No Ships (1999). He has adapted plays by Lorca, Ibsen, Chekov, Piradello, Sophocles, Euripides and Brecht. He has taught at various Irish colleges and universities, and is currently lecturing in English at University College Dublin. He lives in Co. Dublin.
Frank McGuinness - Theatre of Paradox
Site http://www.colinsmythe.co.uk/books/framc.htm
Frank McGuinness and His Theatre of Paradox is a critical study of one of the most important contemporary Irish dramatists. It offers an overview of the McGuinness’s drama from his early plays right up to the recent, Dolly West's Kitchen. The author has chosen to treat the plays thematically, rather than chronologically, which highlights the playwright's major preoccupations in the contexts of modern and contemporary Ireland. She positions McGuinness exactly as a representative of a dynamic creative intelligence fully alive to the various factors, undercurrents, issues, problems, and tensions that are being lived through in present-day Irish society, North and South.
"We are one of the great stocks of Europe. We are the people of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence."
W. B. Yeats, speech in the Irish Senate, June 11, 1925