Fluther good biography ters

Hollywood is always on the lookout for books that could be adapted for the screen.
I'm reading Ada's Algorithm, which is a biography of Ada Lovelace, often credited as being the first programmer.
Michael Flatley's autobiography is the best book you'll ever read.

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ENTER O'CATHASAIGH

Emile Jean DUMAY

The manuscript of O'Casey's supposedly lost play The Harvest Festival was found by Ronald Ayling among the papers at the time of the latter's death in 1 964 and has been in the Berg Collection of the New- York Public Library since 1968. It consists of fifty-six handwritten pages, the first of which bears the Gaelic form of his name that O'Casey used for his early publications : "S. O'Cathasaigh. 18 Abercorn Road, Dublin" ; The Harvest Festival, a play in three acts, is divided into Act I - 16 pages, Act 11-14 pages, Act III - 12 pages with an extra thirteen pages for an additional draft of an enlarged and extended though incomplete Act I.

Ronald Ayling, in his "Detailed Catalogue of Sean O'Casey's Papers at the Time of his Death" i , comments :

The play was written approximately 1918-19, and was rejected by the Abbey Theatre in January 1920. It has never been produced or printed. A description of it is given in Irtish fallen Fare Thee Well 2 ;in theme and subject matter it has much in common with Red Roses for Me (1942) [ ... ]. The discove

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Any book that you would like to be produced as a movie and why-?

@KatawaGrey It’s so cool that you’re doing that. I love Sabriel because the world is scary and unique, and Sabriel is such a strong, sensible protagonist. I’d be first in line to see it as a movie.

I’d love to see The Silmarillion as a movie. No clue how that would be done, because the thing is a freaking behemoth. It would be like adapting the bible- in a way, it is just like a bible for Middle Earth. Maybe a few individual stories could be turned into movies.

The Book of Amber as a movie would also rock my socks. The characters are such snarky bastards, all plotting and backstabbing, but as the book goes on they start to show some heart. The mix of modern day, acid trip, and swords and sorcery would be so neat on screen. But that book (actually, technically ten books published as one) is another doorstop.

House of Leaves- can it even be done? If I were making that movie, I’d add another layer of meta by making it a movie about a book about a manuscript about a movie about a house.

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Despite the play’s challenges to contemporary sensibilities, this is a galvanic production that stirs the spirit and demands that we reflect on what the script says about our own time, our own struggles.

The Plough and the Stars by Sean O’Casey. Directed by Sean Holmes, staged by the Abbey Theatre (Dublin, Ireland), at the American Repertory Theatre, Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA, through October 9.

James Hayes (Peter Flynn) and David Ganly (Fluther Good) in the Abbey Theatre’s production of “The Plough and the Stars.” Photo: Evgenia Eliseeva.

By Robert Israel

When the late African-American playwright Lorraine Hansberry was asked to name the greatest influence on her work, she responded: Sean O’Casey.

“The point in O’Casey is the wonder of the nobility of people,” Hansberry said in 1959. “It is this dimension of people’s humanity that he imposes on us.”

Playwright O’Casey (1880-1964) had an uncanny ability of weaving history, pathos, poetry, and song into a hearty dramatic stew. One can see why his scripts inspired Hansberry t