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SEDUCING INGRID BERGMAN is sensitively read by the masterful Jonathan Keeble.
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November’s GQ Magazine carries a review of Chris Greenhalgh’s new novel, SEDUCING INGRID BERGMAN. The novel explores the real life affair between two of the most intriguing characters of the twentieth century: the actress Ingrid Bergman and the photographer Robert Capa. Thrown together in Paris, shortly after the 1945 Liberation, the pair begin a passionate affair. But Ingrid has a husband, child and career back in Hollywood. Capa longs for the adrenaline he gets from being a war correspondent. Against his better judgement, Capa follows Ingrid back to America, but their happiness is fragile.
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The shortlist in full:
You can online for your choice here until midnight on 18 November. The winners will be announced at a gala dinner in Dublin’s RDS on 22 November. RTÉ will be broadcasting highlights of the event on 24 November.
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Sinéad Gleeson is the editor of a collection drawn from the cream of Irish writing, including contributions by Kevin Barry, Greg Baxter, Dermot Bolger, John Boyne, Declan Burke, John Butler, Trevor Byrne, Roddy Doyle, Dermot Healy, Christine-Dwyer Hickey, Declan Hughes, Arlene Hunt, Colm Keegan, John Kelly, Claire Kilroy, Pat McCabe, Colum McCann, John McKenna, Belinda McKeon, Mike McCormack, Siobhan Mannion, Peter Murphy, Nuala Ni Chonchuir, Phillip O’Ceallaigh, Keith Ridgway, William Wall and Mary Costello.
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Catherine Walker as Maeve Brennan
The Guardian reported on THE TALK OF THE TOWN as an “intriguing play… it isn’t always easy to know whether its shrewder lines come from Donoghue or Brennan… Annabelle Comyn’s production is a triumph… This is a subtle, perfect conjuring up of Brennan’s own dislocated condition. A sly success.”
According to the Irish Times, the play “honours Brennan’s verve, the haunted elegance of her prose and the agitated circumstances of its creation, all of which [Catherine] Walker beautifully combines.”
In the Irish Examiner, Chris O’Rourke wrote: “Emma Donoghue’s Maeve Brennan is a multi-layered and complex creation and her episodic script is rich in both detail and depth. Like Brennan, Donoghue is no stranger to the extraordinary turn of phrase and the writing at times is exquisite… Catherine Walker’s sublime Maeve Brennan was a sheer joy to behold.”
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Week One: The Writer in the Room
Week Two: Moving on to the Floor
Week Three: Music and Movement
Week Four: Costume
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The first week of rehearsals has just finished in Dublin.
Here are some pictures of Emma, director Annabelle Comyn and the cast hard at work:
Annabelle Comyn (l) and Catherine Walker, who plays Maeve Brennan
Emma Donoghue
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The exhibition, which runs from 19 July to 25 November is part of the World Shakespeare Festival, itself part of the Cultural Olympiad’s London 2012 Festival.
