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*Premier of "My Cousin Rachel" at the Gate Theatre, Dublin. |
April 12th. Gate Theatre, Dublin: Premier of new stageplay, "My Cousin Rachel", by Joseph O'Connor, based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, directed by Toby Frow. Performances will run for eight weeks.
Tickets available from the Gate Theatre box office, Cavendish Row, Parnell Square, Dublin 1, Ireland, Phone +353 1 874 4045 / 874 6042, EMAIL: boxoffice@gate-theatre.ie
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*Screenplay about Bram Stoker |
Joseph has been commissioned by the BBC to write a television drama about the long-lasting friendship between Dublin-born ‘Dracula’ author Bram Stoker and the most famous actor of his era, Henry Irving. Due for broadcast in autumn 2012.
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*WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? |
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?, a new collection of short stories from Joseph O’Connor will be published by Harvill Secker in October 2012.
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*THE DRIVETIME DIARIES AVAILABLE ON CD |
A CD collection of 16 of the best of Joe’s recordings for RTE One’s ‘Drivetime’ programme. Frequently acclaimed and keenly awaited, Joe’s diaries are among the most downloaded podcasts at RTE and are admired all over Ireland and abroad. Now, for the first time on CD, RTE is making available a selection. Wry, funny, touching, and powerful, the collection amounts to more than an hour of award-winning radio from an author called by the Le Monde ‘The most exciting writer of his generation.’
‘Unmissable radio’ The Irish Times Magazine.
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*GHOST LIGHT IN TRANSLATION AND OTHER TERRITORIES |
Ghost Light will be published in many languages and territories. To date, as well as Ireland, America and Britain, the list includes: Brazil (Record Publishing), Bulgaria (VL Publishers), Canada (Random House), Croatia (Fraktura), France (Editions Phebus), Germany (Fischer Verlag), USA (Picador, and Farrar Straus Giroux), Holland (Ambo Anthos), Italy (Ugo Guanda Editore), Latvia (Zvaigzne), Portugal (Quixote), and Sweden (Norstedts). More to be announced shortly. The book is available in audio form (unabridged) from BBC Audiobooks.
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