Modern Irish Theatre

Modern Irish Theatre
Author: Mary Trotter
Publsiher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2013-05-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780745654478

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Analysing major Irish dramas and the artists and companies that performed them, Modern Irish Theatre provides an engaging and accessible introduction to twentieth-century Irish theatre: its origins, dominant themes, relationship to politics and culture, and influence on theatre movements around the world. By looking at her subject as a performance rather than a literary phenomenon, Trotter captures how Irish theatre has actively reflected and shaped debates about Irish culture and identity among audiences, artists, and critics for over a century. This text provides the reader with discussion and analysis of: Significant playwrights and companies, from Lady Gregory to Brendan Behan to Marina Carr, and from the Abbey Theatre to the Lyric Theatre to Field Day; Major historical events, including the war for Independence, the Troubles, and the social effects of the Celtic Tiger economy; Critical Methodologies: how postcolonial, diaspora, performance, gender, and cultural theories, among others, shed light on Irish theatre’s political and artistic significance, and how it has addressed specific national concerns. Because of its comprehensiveness and originality, Modern Irish Theatre will be of great interest to students and general readers interested in theatre studies, cultural studies, Irish studies, and political performance.

Women and Embodied Mythmaking in Irish Theatre

Women and Embodied Mythmaking in Irish Theatre
Author: Shonagh Hill
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2019-08-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781108485333

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Provides an historical overview of women's mythmaking and thus their contributions to, and an alternative genealogy of, modern Irish theatre.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre
Author: Nicholas Grene,Chris Morash
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 688
Release: 2016-07-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780191016349

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre provides the single most comprehensive survey of the field to be found in a single volume. Drawing on more than forty contributors from around the world, the book addresses a full range of topics relating to modern Irish theatre from the late nineteenth-century theatre to the most recent works of postdramatic devised theatre. Ireland has long had an importance in the world of theatre out of all proportion to the size of the country, and has been home to four Nobel Laureates (Yeats, Shaw, and Beckett; Seamus Heaney, while primarily a poet, also wrote for the stage). This collection begins with the influence of melodrama, looks at arguably the first modern Irish playwright, Oscar Wilde, before moving into a series of considerations of the Abbey Theatre, and Irish modernism. Arranged chronologically, it explores areas such as women in theatre, Irish-language theatre, and alternative theatres, before reaching the major writers of more recent Irish theatre, including Brian Friel and Tom Murphy, and their successors. There are also individual chapters focusing on Beckett and Shaw, as well as a series of chapters looking at design, acting and theatre architecture. The book concludes with an extended survey of the critical literature on the field. In each chapter, the author does not simply rehearse accepted wisdom; all of the authors push the boundaries of their respective fields, so that each chapter is a significant contribution to scholarship in its own right.

The Irish Theatre

The Irish Theatre
Author: Joseph Holloway
Publsiher: Ardent Media
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1970
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 9182736450XXX

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Irish Theatre on Tour

Irish Theatre on Tour
Author: Nicholas Grene,Chris Morash
Publsiher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2005
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1904505139

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Essays on the touring of Irish theatre, at home and abroad.

Mapping Irish Theatre

Mapping Irish Theatre
Author: Chris Morash,Shaun Richards
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2013-12-12
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781107039421

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Morash and Richards present an original approach to understanding how theatre has produced distinctively Irish senses of space and place.

A Century of Irish Drama

A Century of Irish Drama
Author: Stephen Watt,Eileen Morgan,Shakir Mustafa
Publsiher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 025321419X

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This book traces a significant shift in 20th century Irish theatre from the largely national plays produced in Dublin to a more expansive international art form. Confirmed by the recent success outside of Ireland of the "third wave" of Irish playwrights writing in the 1990s, the new Irish drama has encouraged critics to reconsider both the early national theatre and the dramatic tradition it fostered. On the occasion of the centenary of the first professional production of the Irish Literary Theatre, the contributors to this volume investigate contemporary Irish drama's aesthetic features and socio-political commitments and re-read the plays produced earlier in the century. Although these essayists cover a wide range of topics, from the productions and objectives of the Abbey Theatre's first rivals to mid-century theatre festivals, to plays about the "Troubles" in the North, they all reassess the oppositions so commonplace in critical discussions of Irish drama: nationalism vs. internationalism, high vs. low culture, urban experience vs. rural or peasant life. A Century of Irish Drama includes essays on such figures as W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, Sean O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett, Marina Carr, Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness, Christina Read, Martin McDonagh, and many more. Stephen Watt is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington, and author of Postmodern/Drama: Reading the Contemporary Stage, Joyce, O'Casey, and the Irish Popular Theatre, and essays on Irish and Irish-American culture. He has also written extensively on higher education, most recently Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education (with Cary Nelson). Eileen M. Morgan is a lecturer in English and Irish Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is currently working on Sean O'Faolain's biographies of De Valera and on Edna O'Brien's 1990s trilogy, and is preparing a book-length study on the influence of radio in Ireland. Shakir Mustafa is a Visiting Instructor in the English department at Indiana University. His work has appeared in such journals as New Hibernia Review and The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, and he is now translating Arabic short stories into English. Drama and Performance Studies--Timothy Wiles, general editor

A History of Irish Theatre 1601 2000

A History of Irish Theatre 1601 2000
Author: Chris Morash
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521646820

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Chris Morash's widely-praised account of Irish Theatre traces an often forgotten history leading up to the Irish Literary Revival. He then follows that history to the present by creating a remarkably clear picture of the cultural contexts which produced the playwrights who have been responsible for making Irish theatre's world-wide historical and contemporary reputation. The main chapters are each followed by shorter chapters, focusing on a single night at the theatre. This prize-winning book is an essential, entertaining and highly original guide to the history and performance of Irish theatre.