Writers’ workshop at NYU Abu Dhabi

Augun mín og augun þín (My Eyes and Your Eyes) is a new play that María Ellingsen, Kevin Kuhlke and Snorri Freyr Hilmarsson have been developing for several years.

The piece links the lives of the poets Rósa Guðmundsdóttir, Agnes Magnúsdóttir and Guðný Jónsdóttir. Each suffers heartbreak at the dawn of the 19th century and responds in a different way: one kills, one dies and one survives. The play is a journey through grief and into the heart, and is also about our need to create the ‘story’ of our lives.

This winter we had the chance to try out and polish the piece with the theatre programme at New York University Abu Dhabi – and now it is ready!