Marina Carr: 'I want to forget about the pandemic and all topical relevance'

Virginia Woolf's tale, To The Lighthouse, has been adapted for Cork Midsummer Festival. Just don't overdo the quest for Covid-era allegories, says the Irish playwright 

Marina Carr has adapted To The Lighthouse for a streamed performance from the Everyman. Picture: Leon Farrell

Virginia Woolf’s modernist classic To The Lighthouse is a novel about grief, loss, the passing of time and disrupted plans, written in the aftermath of World War I and a global pandemic. It would not be hard, perhaps, to find resonances in our own current situation.

However, Marina Carr, who has adapted the novel for the stage, is having none of it.