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Mary Manning

MARY MANNING

  (1905 - 1999)
Nationality:    Irish
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Born in 1905 in Dublin, Manning studied acting at the Abbey Theatre and later collaborated on a few plays with her childhood friend Samuel Beckett. In 1935 she moved to Boston with her husband, Mark DeWolfe Howe, an American law professor and the future editor of the papers of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. In Boston Manning worked as the Drama director of Radcliffe College during World War II and later helped to establish the Poets' Theatre, which staged her adaptation of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake in 1952. after her husband died in 1967, Manning returned to Ireland and wrote Theatre criticism for the HiberniA. In 1972, in the aftermath of Bloody Sunday, she published a somber and caustic essay about Belfast in the Atlantic Monthly. Manning later returned to the United States and died in Cambridge in 1999.

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below is a list of Mary Manning's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Go Lovely Rose         Happy Family         Outlook Unsettled         Saint And Mary Kane, The         Storm Over Wicklow         Voice Of Shem, The         Youth's the Season -?

Go Lovely Rose

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Happy Family

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Outlook Unsettled

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Saint And Mary Kane, The

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from story by Frank O'Connor

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Dublin    1968

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Storm Over Wicklow

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Voice Of Shem, The

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from Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. Published 1958 Faber & Faber, London under the title the Voice of Shem. Introduction by Denis Johnston

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Poets' Theatre, Cambridge Mass    1955

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Youth's the Season -?

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a lively and pointed satire on the Bright Young Things of 1920's Dublin

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in "Plays of Changing Ireland" by Macmillan New York, 1936   -

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