{{short description|Irish playwright|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2018}} {{Infobox person | name = Geraldine Aron | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1951}} | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (DEATH date then BIRTH date) --> | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Playwright | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Geraldine Aron''' (born 1951) is an Irish playwright. She was born in Galway, Ireland, has lived in Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa, and now lives in London.<ref name=doollee>{{cite web|title=Geraldine Aron (1951-)|url=http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsA/aron-geraldine.html|work=doollee.com|accessdate=15 April 2012|archive-date=26 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170626180017/http://doollee.com/PlaywrightsA/aron-geraldine.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Aron's first play ''Bar and Ger'' was performed at the Space Theatre in Cape Town in 1975 and then won awards and continues to be produced internationally.<ref name=doollee /> Aron's one-hander starring Dawn French, ''My Brilliant Divorce'', played at the Apollo Theatre in London's West End and was nominated for the 2004 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment.<ref>{{cite web|work=Oliver Awards|url=http://www.olivierawards.com/winners/view/item98547/olivier-winners-2004//|title=Olivier Awards 2004|accessdate=20 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Wright|first=Jane|title=Standing ovation for divorce diva|url=http://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/archive/f100403_3.htm|accessdate=15 April 2012|date=10 April 2003|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304191055/http://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/archive/f100403_3.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> Twelve of Aron's plays have been performed on television or radio.<ref name=doollee />
''My Brilliant Divorce'' has since been produced in 28 countries and {{as of|lc=yes|2024}} is enjoying a 20 year record breaking run in Prague.<ref>{{Citation|last=i-divadlo.cz|title=Můj báječný rozvod|url=https://www.i-divadlo.cz/divadlo/agentura-adf/muj-bajecny-rozvod|access-date=2024-01-24}}</ref>
A French feature-length film, directed by Michèle Laroque, was released in France on 17 January 2018, under the title ''Brillantissime.''<ref>{{Citation|last=AlloCine|title=Brillantissime|url=http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=193960.html|access-date=2018-07-16}}</ref>
Aron's produced stage plays include ''Same Old Moon'' (Geilgud Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue,) ''A Galway Girl'', ''The Shrinking of Alby Chapman'', ''Spider'', ''On The Blue Train'', ''Olive and Hilary'', ''The Stanley Parkers'', et al.<ref name="doollee" /> Aron is included in the 1992 ''Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature'', and many other anthologies.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}} ''My Brilliant Divorce'' appears in ''Singular Sensations'', an American collection of one-person plays.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}}
==Selected works==
===Plays with place and date of first production=== *''Bar and Ger'', Space Theatre, Cape Town, South Africa, 1975<ref name=doollee /> *''A Galway Girl'', Space Theatre, Cape Town, South Africa, 1979<ref name=doollee /> *''Same Old Moon'', Druid Theatre, Galway, Ireland, 1984<ref name=doollee /> *''The Stanley Parkers'', Druid Theatre, Galway, Irelandm 1990<ref name=doollee /> *''The Donahue Sisters'', Druid Theatre, Galway, Ireland, 1990<ref name=doollee /> *''My Brilliant Divorce'', Town Hall Theatre, Galway, Ireland, 2001<ref name=doollee />
===Publications=== *''Seven Plays and Four Monologues'', 1985 {{ISBN|0864860285}} (includes ''Mickey Kannis Caught My Eye'', ''Mr McConkey's Suitcase'', ''On The Blue Train'', ''The Shrinking of Alby Chapman'', ''Spare Room'', ''Spider'').<ref name=doollee />
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{cite news|last=Whitington|first=Paul|title=Celeb news: Geraldine Aron, playwright|url=http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/independent-woman/celebrity-news-gossip/geraldine-aron-1664624.html|accessdate=15 April 2012|newspaper=Independent.ie|date=7 March 2009}} ''(Interview with Aron)'' *{{cite web|title=Our clients: Geraldine Aron|url=http://www.theagency.co.uk/clients/clientdisplay.html?viewListing=MTE3OQ==|work=The Agency|accessdate=15 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426104231/http://www.theagency.co.uk/clients/clientdisplay.html?viewListing=MTE3OQ==|archive-date=26 April 2012|url-status=dead}}''(Listing at Aron's agent's website, which gives fuller list of plays and other works)''
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Aron, Geraldine}} Category:1951 births Category:Living people Category:Irish women dramatists and playwrights Category:Writers from Galway (city) Category:20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights Category:21st-century Irish dramatists and playwrights Category:21st-century Irish women writers Category:20th-century Irish women writers