Interview: Marina Carr
Saturday 23 March 2024 at 5.45pm – Castle Hall, Dublin Castle, Dublin 2
Marina Carr is a playwright who has written over thirty plays. Some of her recent work includes “Girl on an Altar”, “iGirl” and “Gilgamesh”. “Portia Coughlan” recently received a major revivals at The Almeida Theatre in London and Abbey Theatre in Dublin. She has received several prestigious awards for her work: The Wyndham Campbell Prize, The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and the E.M. Forster Prize from American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is an associate professor at Dublin City University and a member of Aosdána.
Interviewed by Martin Doyle
All Festival Events
22-24 March 2024
Opening Night:
"INCIPIT"
Reading
Friday 22 March – 7pm
Alliance Française Dublin
Panel Discussion:
Bitter-Sweet: Tastes & Sensation
Saturday 23 March – 10.30am
Dublin Castle
Interview:
Pierre
Assouline
Saturday 23 March – 12pm
Dublin Castle
Screening:
Les Carnets de Julie: A la table de Colette
Saturday 23 March – 1pm
Dublin Castle
Panel Discussion:
Bad Taste?
Mauvais Goût?
Saturday 23 March – 2pm
Dublin Castle
Panel Discussion:
A Matter of
Taste…
Saturday 23 March – 3.30pm
Dublin Castle
Slam Performance:
Stephen James
Smith
Saturday 23 March – 5pm
Dublin Castle
Interview:
Marina
Carr
Saturday 23 March – 5.45pm
Dublin Castle
Panel Discussion:
Emerging
Tastes
Sunday 24 March – 11am
Alliance Française Dublin
Interview:
Amanda
Bankert
Sunday 24 March – 12.45pm
Alliance Française Dublin
Events in English, Irish and French. Simultaneous interpreting is provided in English and French.
Admission free for all events on a first come/first served basis. To avoid disappointment, we advise
people to come early.
No advance booking required, except for the reading performance on Friday evening.
Please note this programme subject to change.
Other events
throughout the Festival
Book Sales
Saturday 23 March
9.45am - 7pm
(Dublin Castle)
International Books pop-up shop
will feature books by writers
participating in the Festival and
other titles for all ages on the
theme of “Taste”
Book Signings
Saturday 23 March
11.30 pm – 12 pm
3pm – 3.30 pm
4.3 pm – 4.45pm
(Dublin Castle)
Sunday 24 March
1.15 pm – 1.45 pm
(Alliance Française Dublin)
Exhibitors
Saturday 23 March
9.45am - 7pm
(Dublin Castle)
Exhibitors this year include
the Alliance Française French Library
the grocery store Le Goudalier
and Silk Road Café will be providing beverages & pastries in between events
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