Mark O'Rowe is an Irish playwright whose plays include Howie the
Rookie (Bush Theatre, London, 1999), From Both Hips (Fishamble,
1997), Made in China (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 2001), Crestfall
(Gate Theatre, Dublin, 2003), Terminus (Abbey Theatre, 2007) and
Our Few and Evil Days (Abbey Theatre, 2014). His version of Ibsen's
Hedda Gabler was staged by the Abbey Theatre in 2015.
His screenplays include Broken (2012), based on the novel by Daniel
Clay, Perrier’s Bounty (2009), Boy A (2007), based on the novel by
Jonathan Trigell, and Intermission (2004).
Author photo by Ros Kavanagh.
'A play of intense juxtapositions, of silence and anger, façade and
vulnerability, distance and communion. Intensely thoughtful, the
piece presents itself as an expression of relationships and human
identity. It is impossible to come away from it without reflecting
on the barriers, physical and mental, that can hinder real human
interaction'
*Edinburgh Reporter*
'Beautiful and heart-wrenching'
*The Skinny*
'An intense experience like trying to pick apart the puzzle of an
overhead conversation… an exquisitely nuanced exploration of
complex relationships where past traumas and resentments have put
up frustrating barriers to genuine closeness'
*BritishTheatre.com*
'Deeply engaging… O'Rowe's thought-provoking script deals in a
theatrical and dramatic simplicity that serves as a counterpoint to
its textual complexity… will linger long in the memory'
*The Arts Review*
'A cryptic work about memory and connection… an intricate puzzle of
a play, The Approach holds your attention like a transfixing
riddle, rationing out clues and folding in on itself artfully'
*Irish Times*
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