UID:
almahu_9949863660902882
Format:
1 online resource (358 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783031550126
Note:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- Renovating the Irish Theatre History Survey -- The Structure of the Book -- Conclusion -- References -- Part I Histories -- 2 Economic Expansion and Moral Conservatism (1957-1966) -- Part I: Historical Overview -- Part II: Theatre and Performance Practices -- Genres, Methods and Approaches -- Key Practitioners and Companies -- Mary O'Malley -- Tomás Mac Anna -- Hilton Edwards -- The Pike Theatre -- Phyllis Ryan and Gemini Productions -- Landmark Plays and Productions -- An Triail by Mairéad Ní Ghráda (1964) -- Philadelphia here I come! By Brian Friel (1964) -- A Whistle in the Dark by Tom Murphy (1961) -- Seminal Revivals -- Revivals of Yeats -- Spotlight on Institutions and Festivals -- The Dublin Theatre Festival -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Rapid Change, Revision and the "Troubles" (1966-1980) -- Part 1: Historical Context -- Part II: Theatre and Performance Practices -- Genres, Methods and Approaches -- Key Practitioners and Companies -- Bronwen Casson -- Joe Dowling -- Patrick Mason -- Druid and Garry Hynes -- Landmark Plays and Productions -- The Flats by John Boyd (1971) -- Non-Stop Connolly Show by Margaretta D'Arcy and John Arden (1975) -- A Pagan Place by Edna O'Brien (1972, 1977) -- Seminal Revivals -- Beckett Revival -- Spotlight on Institutions and Festivals -- Project Arts Centre -- Galway International Arts Festival -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Crisis, Uncertainty and Scandal (1980-1994) -- Part I: Historical Overview -- Part II: Theatre and Performance Practices -- Genres, Methods and Approaches -- Key Practitioners and Companies -- Field Day Theatre Company -- Charabanc Theatre Company -- Rough Magic -- Landmark Plays and Productions -- Tea in a China Cup by Christina Reid (1983) -- Double Cross by Thomas Kilroy (1986).
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Digging for Fire by Declan Hughes (1991) -- Eclipsed by Patricia Burke Brogan (1992) -- Seminal Revivals -- O'Casey Revivals -- Spotlight on Institutions and Festivals -- There Are No Irish Women Playwrights 1 (1992) and 2 (1993) -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 The Celtic Tiger, Inward-Migration and the Peace Process (1994-2008) -- Part I: Historical Context -- Part II: Theatre and Performance Practices -- Genres, Methods and Approaches -- Key Practitioners and Companies -- Pan Pan Theatre -- Blue Raincoat Theatre Company -- Calypso Productions -- Marina Carr -- Landmark Plays and Productions -- Riverdance (Premiered 1994) -- Martin McDonagh, The Leenane Trilogy (The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Lonesome West, A Skull in Connemara) (Premiered 1996/1997) -- Tinderbox Theatre, Convictions (2000) -- Seminal Revivals -- The Playboy of the Western World Revivals (Druid Theatre, Abbey Theatre, Pan Pan Theatre) -- Spotlight on Institutions and Festivals -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Recession, Commemoration and Covid-19 (2008-2023) -- Part I: Historical Context -- Part II: Theatre and Performance Practices -- Genres, Methods and Approaches -- Key Practitioners and Companies -- ANU Productions -- Irish-Language Theatre in the West of Ireland: Fíbín, Branar, Moonfish Theatre, An Taibhdhearc and Garraí an Ghiorria -- Teya Sepinuck and Theatre of Witness -- Landmark Plays and Productions -- Brokentalkers, The Blue Boy (2011) -- ANU Productions, Dublin Tenement Experience-Living the Lockout (2013) and THIRTEEN-Constituents (2013) -- Druid Theatre, DruidShakespeare (2015) -- Dead Centre, To Be a Machine (Version 1.0) (2020) -- Seminal Revivals -- Teresa Deevy's Katie Roche (2017, directed by Caroline Byrne) -- Spotlight on Institutions and Festivals.
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Fishamble: The New Play Company: "Show in a Bag," "Tiny Plays for Ireland," "A Play for Ireland" "Duets" and "Transatlantic Commissions Scheme" -- The Abbey Theatre (Under the Joint Directorship of Neil Murray and Graham McLaren, 2016-2021) -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Theories -- 7 Nation -- Theatre and the Political Work of Nation-Building -- Woman and/as Nation -- Interrogating National Histories Through the Irish History Play -- Conclusion -- References -- 8 Language -- Hiberno-English: An Untamed Language for the Stage -- Storytelling: Performative Language Searching for Community -- Adaptation and Performing Heteroglossia -- Conclusion -- References -- 9 Body -- Acting Bodies -- Bodies as Tools -- Intersectional Bodies -- Conclusion -- References -- 10 Space -- The Home Place -- -- Liminal Spaces -- Sites of Performance/Non-theatre Spaces -- -- Conclusion -- References -- 11 Interculturalism -- Interculturalism's Irish Historical Legacies -- Interculturalism as International Collaborative Relationships -- Contemporary Minority-Led "New" Interculturalisms -- Conclusion -- References -- 12 Conclusion -- References -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: McIvor, Charlotte Contemporary Irish Theatre Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2024 ISBN 9783031550119
Language:
English
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