On Raftery's Hill - Acting Edition

by Marina Carr

Book by Marina Carr

Genres: Plays, Drama, Irish Literature

72 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Marina Carr was brought up in County Offaly. A graduate of University College Dublin, she has written extensively for the theatre. She has taught at Villanova, Princeton, and currently teaches in the School of English, Dublin City University. Awards include the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Macaulay Fellowship, the E. M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Wyndham Campbell Prize. She lives in Dublin with her husband and four children.

Reviews

[caitlin · Rating 3 out of 5]

crazy!!!! read it for my irish lit class

[Caro · Rating 3 out of 5]

McClay Library - QUB

[Elly · Rating 3 out of 5]

I saw the play on my roommate's air mattress. I said hey you're reading a play. He said it's really depressing, which is a lot coming from the boy who reads Lovecraft. I said oh. He said here. I said no thanks. He said it's really depressing, it'll only take you half an hour. I said erm okay thanks. Then I took the book and read it on my hour bus ride. I read it (sometimes aloud) in my awful Scottish accent. It wasn't as depressing as I thought it would be. It's quite provoking, I'll give it that. And well-written, yes. Mostly I like the phonetic dialogue.

[Gwendolyn · Rating 2 out of 5]

What a twisted family! Yes, I can see there is literary merit in this play, but I really can't stomach father-daughter rape. This was the worst kind of tragedy--a crude one lacking all elegance.