DAmerican dramatist Tennessee Williams once said: “If I get rid of my demon, I will lose my angel.” There is no word to describe this situation. Humanity The characters in the works of Irish playwright Deirdre Kinahan-they are all shaped by the injuries they have experienced in the past that determine their present or prevent their future. At the same time, they all have a vague hope that every negative experience will always have a positive impact, just like Adorno’s conclusion is the opposite: maybe something is right.
Kinahan was born in Dublin in 1968, and until now almost no one knows in the German-speaking world-although she started writing works in 1999, there are now about 30. Kinahan lives with her husband and two daughters in County Meath, Ireland, since 1998. By chance: As she said in an interview, she is an aspiring young actress who also works for an organization that provides courses in literature and computer skills for Dublin prostitutes. This should give them the opportunity to change their profession. When the women saw the actress Kinahan on stage, they asked her if she could write a play for her-this is BÈ CARNA (an old Gaelic term for prostitution), which consists of five monologues about fate The drama is how easy it is to create women.
Pay attention to family life
Even after its debut, Kinahan’s work should continue to touch on serious social critical issues: “Passage” (2001) tells the story of Kate, a lesbian professional woman who had to deal with the death of her mother and her past in Ireland ——In Kinahan, the family is always a decisive space, and its trauma is always related to the history of the country.Therefore, it is not surprising that one of the author’s role models is the Irish playwright John Millington Singh (unfortunately, he rarely plays in this country), he and the “playboy of the western world” (the legendary Today is the work of Peter Palitzsch in 1948 Berlin Orchestra). With “Attaboy, Mr. Synge!” (2002), Kinahan set up a new monument for him-perhaps because Synge ignorantly gave the author his own work and an avant-garde premise with “Deirdre, Queen of Pain”. His famous saying “I remember things I want to forget, forget things I don’t want to forget” may also come from a character of Kinahan.
Dedicated theater producer
It’s also worth seeing Kinahan’s works because they are very different in form in terms of thematic similarity: this comes from the exquisite indoor drama “Melody” (2005), which depicts a strange and gentle encounter on a park bench-a , Can be said to be a positive variant Edward Albis “Zoogeschichte”-about the complex work “Bogboy”, a work about the Irish Republican Army, tells the story of the century’s huge painting “Crossing” (2018) in the form of nested letters and flashback sequence, depicting a British village community from From 1919 to 2019. All of the author’s works are published by the London publisher Nick Hern Books, and there is hardly any German translation so far. Many of her works have now won awards. The author herself is a very dedicated and practical theater producer-she founded the Tall Tales Theatre Company and is a member of the Irish Theatre Forum and the Abbey Theatre.
