Marble
By: Marina Carr
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Description: A premonition of impending disaster precedes a collision between the conscious and subconscious lives of two married couples. Hidden fantasies and passions conflict with the calls of friendship and fidelity. The characters' everyday existences and their struggles to accept mortality provide the backdrop to the play's exploration of the tragedy of dying of an empty heart. 'Marble' was first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on 10 February 2009.
Notes: Originally published: in print in Plays two. London: Faber, 2009.