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Directed byAnnabelle Comynset Design byPaul O’MahonyCostume Design byPeter O’Briensound Design byPhilip StewartCast includesLorcan CranitchDarragh KellyOwen McDonnellCatherine Walker“I was born to be a New Yorker.”Ireland and America collide. From the red-brick suburbsof Ranelagh to the giddy heights of 1950s Manhattan,one woman – the iconic Maeve Brennan – made the leap.Daughter of a famous revolutionary father, she threw herselfinto the glamour of New York literary circles while writingheartbreaking stories of a very different world back in Dublin.Beautiful, mercurial and devastatingly truthful in her work,she fascinated the world, including the brilliant and volatilemen in her life at The New Yorker.Award-winning Emma Donoghue, author of the world-widebestseller room, returns to the theatre with this dazzlingworld première inspired by the life and work of a pioneeringwriter and remarkable woman.THE TALK OF THE TOWN IS SupporteD By IrISh theatre truSt.hatch IS part oF project cataLySt, an InItIatIVe oF projectartS centre.the talk ofthe toWnBy Emma Donoghue15