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Frank McGuinness

    29. červenec 1953

    Frank McGuinness je uznávaný dramatik a profesor tvůrčího psaní na University College Dublin. Jeho hry se často zabývají složitými mezilidskými vztahy a historickými traumaty, přičemž se vyznačují silnými dialogy a psychologickou hloubkou. McGuinness mistrně pracuje s jazykem a dokáže v postavách odhalit jak jejich zranitelnost, tak jejich houževnatost. Jeho dílo je ceněno pro svou emocionální rezonanci a hluboký vhled do lidské povahy.

    Tartuffe
    Dolly West's Kitchen
    Frank McGuinness Plays 2
    Someone Who'll Watch Over Me
    There Came a Gypsy Riding
    Speaking Like Magpies
    • 2023

      Moliere's exuberant seventeenth-century classic is brought back to life in an audacious contemporary Irish version by Frank McGuinness. Tartuffe premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in March 2023.

      Tartuffe
    • 2022

      I am honoured to meet you. You are, as they say, a man after my own heart. And you have lifted mine. My heart, that is. I owe you for this kindness - that gift. Thank you. You are crying into your soup, sir. Two men, together, on the edge of heaven.

      Dinner With Groucho
    • 2021

      The Visiting Hour

      • 48 stránek
      • 2 hodiny čtení

      They sing and argue, they broach dangerous ground, their profound love apparent despite themselves, until the visiting hour is up. Written during the Covid-19 lockdown of 2020, Frank McGuinness's The Visiting Hour premiered in April 2021 at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, in the first online Gate At Home production.

      The Visiting Hour
    • 2018

      A collection of compelling short stories: hypnotic, spell-binding prose which explores the falseness of boundaries and the madness of love in mythic, urban contemporary settings. Brave both in its subject matter and linguistic choices, this anthology showcases the work of a master storyteller.

      Paprika
    • 2017

      The Woodcutter and his Family

      • 224 stránek
      • 8 hodin čtení

      The World War intensifies in Europe. In Zurich a writer breathes his last imagining his life till now from his childhood in Dublin. The voices of his family circling him - wife, son, daughter. And James Joyce has saved for them one last story to delight and defy them: The Woodcutter And His Children ...

      The Woodcutter and his Family
    • 2015

      Arimathea

      • 304 stránek
      • 11 hodin čtení

      It is 1950. Donegal. A land apart. Derry city is only fourteen miles away but too far, mentally, for people to travel there in comfort. Into this community comes Gianni, a painter from Italy. A book of close observation, sharp wit, linguistic dexterity - and of deep sympathy for everyday humanity.

      Arimathea
    • 2013

      The Hanging Gardens

      • 96 stránek
      • 4 hodiny čtení
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      Now we have a family, a rivalry, a purpose. A writer and his wife sit together in their garden. They are surrounded by a lifetime's work; their home, their gardens and their children. Rachel wants to be congratulated on her pregnancy, Maurice is struggling for his father's acceptance and Charlie needs his sacrifices to be acknowledged. A crisis has drawn this family together but their honesty may pull them apart. The Hanging Gardens by Frank McGuinness premiered at the Abbey Theatre in October 2013 as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival.

      The Hanging Gardens
    • 2012

      'Wątkiem istotnym zarówno dla twórczości McGuinnessa, jak i jego biografii, jest mierzenie się z doświadczeniem lokalności. Trudno chyba znaleźć we współczesnym dramacie irlandzkim drugiego pisarza, który równie często podejmuje temat kształtowania charakteru człowieka na styku kultur, odmiennych narracji historycznych, sprzecznych światopoglądów i filozofii życiowych.' Ze wstępu Michała Lachmana

      Wspomnijcie synów Ulsteru i inne sztuki
    • 2012

      The Dead

      • 112 stránek
      • 4 hodiny čtení

      Gretta and Gabriel Conroy attend the Morkan Sisters annual dinner on the Feast of the Epiphany and the last day of Christmas. An evening of laughter, music and dance ends in an epiphany for Gabriel.Recognised as a masterpiece, The Dead, the short story from James Joyce's Dubliners, is dramatised by Frank McGuinness.

      The Dead
    • 2012

      Obsessed with his own salvation, the hermit Paulo dedicates himself to ten years of prayerful penance. When his faith wavers, the ever-watchful Devil seizes the moment to convince him that he shares the fate of one Enrico, a notorious Neapolitan gangster destined for damnation.

      Damned by Despair