In Marina Carr’s bold retelling of this foundational text she dramatizes the abuse of strength and grievous harm to the natural world. Her play embraces the central figure’s venture to the forbidden cedar forest, the last sacred ground of the gods, his homo-erotic relationship with the wild man, Enkidu, and the price of ecological wastage. It culminates in epic wisdom: ‘Look, none of these things ever happened but they’re all true.’
Marina Carr’s plays have been translated into many languages and produced around the world. The Gallery Press also publishes The Mai, Portia Coughlan, By the Bog of Cats, On Raftery’s Hill, Ariel, Woman and Scarecrow, The Cordelia Dream, Marble, 16 Possible Glimpses and
Hecuba.
In 2017 she received the Windham-Campbell Prize for Literature. She is a Senior Associate Writer at the Abbey Theatre and is Associate Professor in the School of English at DCU. A member of Aosdána, she lives in Dublin with her husband and four children.
