Marina Carr's new play, Audrey or Sorrow, opens in Abbey Theatre

A new play by Dublin City University School of English lecturer Marina Carr opens tomorrow (23 February 2024) in the Abbey Theatre. 

“In an old house somewhere in Ireland, a young mother watches over her sleeping baby. But, in Marina Carr’s dark and dangerously funny new play, Audrey or Sorrow, nothing is as it seems.”

Making its world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Marina Carr’s remarkable play Audrey or Sorrow brought audiences on a mesmeric journey through a kaleidoscope of traumatic family secrets and unimaginable loss. Meeting with ghosts behaving badly along the way, the audience was drawn along by the endless pull of the sea.

Opening to critical and popular acclaim, Marina’s latest work reminded us all of the power of her vision and the central place that she occupies in Ireland’s theatrical and cultural landscape.

Audrey or Sorrow will be the first of two world premieres of work by Carr by the Abbey in 2024. As well as helping to mark a significant anniversary for Marina, the productions also mark her third year as the Abbey Theatre’s Senior Associate Playwright.

The second of these premieres: The Boy is a contemporary Irish interpretation of the Greek Theban trilogy of Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, told from a mother’s perspective. It continues Carr’s conversation with the foundations of modern drama and questions what it means to be human in 2024. The two premieres come to the Abbey Stage as part of the theatre's ongoing initiative, The Gregory Project.

Carr is a lecturer in the English Department at DCU, having been the first John McGahern Writer in Residence at St Patricks College (now the DCU Institute of Education.)

Read more here: https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/audrey-or-sorrow/