Mary Noonan lectures in modern and contemporary French theatre at University College Cork. She has published widely on French theatre, including Echoâs Voice: The Theatres of Sarraute, Duras, Cixous and Renaude (2014).
"The writing here is refreshingly technical, preoccupied as it is with the substance of some of the intermedial and genre-defying techniques that make the author so modern and that leave her work open to new and developing modes of interpretation."
-Anne Brancky, Vassar College, in H-France Review, Vol. 19, No. 252 (November 2019)
"This is a rich, enterprising, and immaculately edited collection bringing together scholars and practitioners engaging with Marguerite Durasâs work for the theatre, conceived compellingly in terms of 'voices' (dramatic, textual, collaborative, authorial). [...] The final section is devoted to a fascinating interview with Duras in 1985 by Helga Finter, published for the first time in its original version and notable more for Durasâs insistence on the sacrificial nature of theatre and her passion for Chekhov than for any immediately new perspectives on her own project."
-James S. Williams, Royal Holloway, University of London, in French Studies, Vol. 74, Iss. 1 (January 2020)
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