Maria StrawCinar

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Maria StrawCinar Biography

Maria Straw-Çinar is a novelist, performer and teacher.She has written her debut novel The Empty Quarter, whihc was short-listed for Cinnamon Press new fiction award. She has worked in theatre and new writing in Spain, Ireland, Paris and Prague. She performed in French with The Cité International Theatre in Paris: the play, Suicidé by Nicolai Erdman, won the Best Play Award at The Nice Theatre Festival. She lived in the Middle East, where she wrote Deserted, which she later produced on the London Fringe. She has been working closely with Sam Dowling in Praxis Theatre Laboratory for ten years as actor, associate director and artistic director. Her roles include MAUD GONNE MACBRIDE in The Flame and the Stone by Sam Dowling, (London, Ireland and San Franscisco Fringe Festival) , HECUBA in Women and the Trojan Horse (The New York Fringe Festival and Ireland.) With Praxis Theatre Laboratory, she has extended their tour base to the Western and Aran Island, New York and San Francisco Fringe Festivals and continues to push the boundaries of conventional theatre. She is also an experienced Drama teacher and poet. She is currently working on Vinegar Alley, a play dealing with teenage violence.)

The Best Poem Of Maria StrawCinar

Papyrus

Egyptian morning with my husband
Awake after the deepest sleep
Like a Mummy with her daddy
Catacomb sarcophagus
Buried deep in sheets of sea
Papillion white layered chrysalis
Memory’s pointbreak surfer
rides the waves over her red admiral
(To die a death together and wake together)
A little death and life together
You prefer paper to china
Wolfing down the dark black magic
We drink ourselves to life
Semi-comatose addicts
Leading players in our marriage
A strong one like the coffee
A thousand sleeps have led me here
Older, slower, lashed by ancient pain
My heart’s valve is now released
Fragile as papyrus near the flame
Ashen white lady awoken from the Big Sleep

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