Frank McGuinness

Frank McGuinness (born July 29, 1953 in Buncrana , County Donegal ) is an Irish playwright , poet and translator .

Life

McGuinness studied English literature at University College Dublin . After completing his studies he worked as a lecturer first at the University of Ulster and then at the National University of Ireland , Maynooth. He is Writer in Residence and since 2007 Professor of Creative Writing at University College Dublin.

His first dramatic success was Factory Girls (1982). Shortly thereafter, he had his probably greatest success with the award-winning piece Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (1985).

His poetry collection Booterstown was published in 1994.

McGuinness lives in Booterstown near Dublin .

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Plays

• The Factory Girls ( Abbey Theater , Dublin, 1982)
• Baglady (Abbey Theater, 1985)
• Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Abbey Theater, 1985; Hampstead Theater , London, 1986)
• Innocence ( Gate Theater , 1986)
• Cathaginians (Abbey Theater, 1988; Hampstead, 1989)
• Mary and Lizzie ( RSC , 1989)
• The Bread Man (Gate, 1991)
• Someone Who'll Watch Over Me (Hampstead, West End and Broadway, 1992)
• The Bird Sanctuary (Abbey Theater, 1993)
• Mutability ( RNT , 1997)
• Dolly West's Kitchen (Abbey Theater, 1999)
• Gates of Gold (Gate Theater, 2002. Finborough Theater , 2004)
• There Came a Gypsy Riding ( Almeida Theater , London, 2007)
• The Holy Moley Jesus Story (Greash Theater, Dublin, 2008)
• Greta Garbo Came to Donegal (Tricycle Theater, London, 2010)
• The Match Box (Everyman Playhouse, Liverpool, 2012)

Translations

• Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen (RNT, 1987)
• Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (Gate, 1988; RSC)
• Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen ( Roundabout Theater , Broadway, 1994)
• A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen ( Playhouse Theater , Broadway, 1997)
• Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov (Gate and Royal Court, 1990)
• Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov (Field Day Production, 1995)
• Yerma by Federico García Lorca (Amharclann na Mainistreach, 1987)
• The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht (Gate, 1987)
• The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht (RNT, 1997)
• Electra by Sophocles (Donmar and Broadway)
• The Storm by Alexander Nikolajewitsch Ostrowski (Almeida)
• Hecuba by Euripides
• Phaedra of Seneca
• Oedipus of Sophocles (Royal National Theater)
• Helen by Euripides (Shakespeare's Globe, 2008)
• John Gabriel Borkman by Henrik Ibsen (Abbey Theater, 2010)
• Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen (London Classic Theater, 2011) [3] [32]

Scripts

• Tanz in die Freiheit (Dancing at Lughnasa) (1998)
• Talk of Angels (1998)

Web links

• Literature by and about Frank McGuinness in the catalog of the German National Library
• Frank McGuinness in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• McGuinness' page at UCD