Irish playwright Deirdre Kinahan is co-founder and joint Artistic Director of Tall Tales Theatre Company. Her play "Moment" will be performed at Smith in 2012.
Irish playwright Deirdre Kinahan is coming to Smith College tomorrow to discuss her work on the impact of violence on women, families and communities.
The “Trauma and Tea Cakes: Surviving Social Breakdown” event, which is free and open to the public, begins at 4:30 on Tuesday, September 13 in Seelye Hall, Room 106.
Kinahan’s plays often explore trauma and life-altering emotional events. She favors characters that are seemingly ordinary, but who encounter and navigate extraordinary situations, often dealing with violence and abuse.
Kinahan’s play “Moment”, which premiered in Ireland in 2007, will be performed by the Smith College Theatre Department in February 2012. The play is described as a drama involving an “ordinary” Irish family with a son just back from prison after having killed a friend of his sister. The play explores the family’s relationship after the son’s return.
Read a Q&A with Kinahan on the Grécourt Gate.
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