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Since the success of her novel ‘Room’, Emma Donoghue can write whatever she wants and never what she’s told to. But things changed when she was asked to write a play about Maeve Brennan, the ...
Sep 30, 2012 · Emma Donoghue's play marks the next step in a belated but deserved recognition of Maeve Brennan in her native land. Talk of the Town is one of an exciting swathe of new plays in this year's festival.
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Director Annabelle Comyn and writer Emma Donoghue’s new play explores a decade in the life of Maeve Brennan, a Dublin-born emigrant who became a New Yorker staff columnist and short story writer, and an integral part of the New York literary scene from 1949 to the 1960s.
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Oct 3, 2012 · THIS arresting play, a theatrical debut for writer Emma Donoghue, chronicles the life and work of writer Maeve Brennan. Brennan was born in Ranelagh in 1917. She moved to New York when her father ...
Oct 20, 2012 · EMMA DONOGHUE Most of the play is her New York life at The New Yorker magazine between about 1949 and 1960. ANNABELLE COMYN My first introduction to her writing was The Springs of Affection, her short stories. That came out as a special edition with the Irish Independent, in the mid 2000s.
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Sep 28, 2012 · When Brennan’s parents left for America, they had sold their Cherryfield Avenue home to Eamon Morrissey’s parents. Greater attention will no doubt be paid in the coming week to Emma Donoghue’s full-length play about Maeve Brennan, The Talk Of The Town, which opens in the Project and promises to be hugely exciting.
