Marina Carr on Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
From The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast by The Windham-Campbell Prizes
February 25, 2026 · 32 min
About this episode
Marina Carr discusses Virginia Woolf's novel 'To the Lighthouse' with Michael Kelleher.
Winter comes once again to an end, or something close to it — and so too does our winter mini-series, with Marina Carr (recipient of a 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama) chatting with prize director Michael Kelleher about Virginia Woolf's 1927 novel, To the Lighthouse . Marina Carr was born in 1964 and grew up in County Offaly. She graduated from UCD in 1987. Her plays include Low in the Dark, This Love Thing, Ullaloo, The Mai (Best New Play, Dublin Theatre Festival), Portia Coughlan (Susan Smith Blackburn Award), By The Bog of Cats (Irish Times/ ESB Award for Best New Play), On Raftery’s Hill , Woman and Scarecrow, a version of Hecuba, and Gilgamesh . She has been Writer-in-Residence at Trinity College, the Abbey Theatre, Princeton University and was the first John McGahern Writer-in-Residence in St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra/DCU. Marina Carr is a member of Aosdána and lives with her family in Dublin. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
People in this episode
Host: Michael Kelleher
Guest: Marina Carr
Topics covered
- Virginia Woolf
- To the Lighthouse
- Marina Carr
- literature
- drama
- Irish playwright
Keywords
- Virginia Woolf
- To the Lighthouse
- Marina Carr
- drama
- Irish literature
- playwright
- interview
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Windham-Campbell Prizes, Trinity College, Abbey Theatre, Princeton University, St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra/DCU
Books & works: To the Lighthouse
Places: County Offaly, Dublin
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