Name Owen McCafferty Role Playwright | Movies Mickybo and Me | |
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Plays Scenes from the Big Picture, Shoot The Crow Nominations Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy Books Mojo Mickybo, The Absence of Women, Titanic: Scenes from the, Closing time, Quietly Similar People Terry Loane, Sophocles, Friedrich Holderlin, Zvonimir Mrkonjic | ||
Owen mccafferty on joy s entry
Owen McCafferty (born 1961) is a playwright from Northern Ireland.
Contents
- Owen mccafferty on joy s entry
- Owen mccafferty interview part 1
- Early life
- Career
- Plays
- Films based on his plays
- References
Owen mccafferty interview part 1
Early life
Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, McCafferty in 1961 he was brought up in London from the age of 1 until aged 10 when his parents returned to Belfast. He was educated at St Augustine's Secondary School, the College of Business Studies and then the University of Ulster where he studied Philosophy and History.
Career
His play Scenes from the Big Picture, originally produced in 2003 at the National Theatre in London, earned him the John Whiting Award, the Evening Standard's Charles Wintour Award for New Playwriting and the Meyer-Whitworth Award. It was the first time any playwright had won all three awards in one year.
McCafferty has also adapted J P Miller's Days of Wine and Roses but only used the skeleton of the original.
McCafferty's writing features the language and complexities, both comic and tragic, of Belfast life. Like John Millington Synge, McCafferty's dialogue is highly stylized.