Next Year Will Be A Good One: Life with Sean O'Casey, My Family and Theatre. Este artículo no está disponible.Next Year Will Be A Good One: Life with Sean O'Casey, My Family and Theatre

SHIVAUN O’CASEY has been an actor, director and producer. As an actor she worked in TV and film but her first love has been theatre. She has been directed on stage by Stephen Frears, John Blatchley, Peter Gill, Jack MacGowran and Robert Kidd. In New York City she directed Frank McGuinness’s Baglady and Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days and at the Peacock Theatre, Dublin, Sean O’Casey’s Purple Dust.

From 1990 to 1999 she led the cross-community, cross-border O’Casey Theatre Company that toured Ireland, England and the U.S. In 2004 she directed and produced a documentary about her father with Mary Beth Yarrow called Under a Colored Cap; this was broadcast on RTE and BBC. Now retired in Devon, she looks after the O’Casey Estate and paints.

John Wilson Foster was born and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was educated at Queen’s University, Belfast, and earned his doctorate in English literature at the University of Oregon while teaching as a part-time instructor.

His teaching and research career was spent at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, of which he is a professor emeritus. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Among his publications are The Achievement of Seamus Heaney (Lilliput Press, 1995); Nature in Ireland: A Scientific and Cultural History (senior editor, Lilliput Press, 1997); The Titanic Reader (Penguin Putnam, 2000); Pilgrims of the Air: The Passing of the Passenger Pigeons (Notting Hill Editions, 2014; New York Review Books, 2017).