Marina Carr

Melissa Sihra is Head of Drama at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and Assistant Professor of Drama. She is editor of Women in Irish Drama: A Century of Authorship and Representation and was President of the Irish Society for Theatre Research from 2011-15. She is a Dramaturg and regular speaker at the Lady Gregory Autumn Gathering at Coole Park.

1. Towards a Matriarchal Lineage.- 2. Seeking a Landscape: Early Pastures.- 3. Lakes of the Night: The Mai.- 4. Topographies of the Mind: Portia Coughlan.- 5. Writ in the Sky: By the Bog of Cats....- 6. The Haunted Kitchen: On Raftery's Hill.- 7. Psychic Terrains: Ariel and Woman and Scarecrow.- 8. Playing the Field: The Cordelia Dream and Meat and Salt.- 9. Landscapes of the Mind's Eye: The Giant Blue Hand and Marble.- 10. The Nature of Playwriting: Sixteen Possible Glimpses, Phaedra Backwards and Hecuba.- 11.Beyond the Gauze.

"An erudite, thought-provoking and startling fresh academic study which situates Marina Carr's plays in relation to the patriarchal lineage of Irish modern drama. ... Overall this book offers valuable critical study on Carr and - accurately - locates her within the female genealogy of modern Irish drama." (Mia Colleran, The Irish Times, August 24, 2019)
"Marina Carr: Pastures of the Unknown is a well-argued and thought-provoking addition to the small but growing corpus of critical studies on the theatre of Marina Carr." (Adrienne Leavy, Reading Ireland, Issue 10, 2019)