<> Boyd Letters Boyd Estate 1977 Dec 8th Linen Hall Library Wednesday, March 16, 2016 TIFF Boyd083 Letter O&#039;Casey, Paris English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd083 Linen Hall Library Linen Hall Library Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd083_1.jpg LHL Archive 8th September 1977 Monsieur E.J.Dumay, Rue de Gaulle, 21240 Talant, France. Dear M. Dumay, My friend Eileen O’Casey kindly gave me your name when I was enquiring about a French translator for one of my plays called THE FLATS. This play had had great success throughout Ireland, has also had a successful production in Germany, and is going on at an off-off Broadway theatre for the second time this autumn. Altogether it has proved to be a very popular play, and has been compared to O’Casey - hence Eileen O’Casey’s interest in my work. About a year ago when I was lecturing at the Sorbonne a Paris group were interested in a French production, and I began to think about a French translation. If you would be interested I would send you a copy of the play (it has been published and gone into two editions), and I would also send you some of the notices from Irish, American and German newspapers. I understand from Eileen O’Casey that you have already translated Figure in the Night and some of Sean’s later plays. I don’t think, therefore, that you would find my idiom particularly difficult. I should of course give you every co-operation. I am familiareenough with French, and visit Paris from time to time, but I thought it best to write to you in English. Yours sincerely, (John Boyd) Literary Advisor, THE LYRIC PLAYERS THEATRE Text