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Portia Coughlan

Marina Carr
Portia Coughlan Book PDF

Author : Marina Carr
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571389193

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Portia Coughlan by Marina Carr Pdf

Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 1997. 'Carr's harrowing play has the scale and anguish of myth, and the immediacy of a contemporary anecdote.' Independent on Sunday There's a wolf tooth growin in me heart and it's turnin me from everywan and everthin I am. Portia Coughlan lives life in monstrous limbo, haunted by a yearning for her spectral twin brother lying at the bottom of the Belmont river, unable to find any love for her wealthy husband and children, seeking solace in soulless affairs, deeply afraid of what she might do. Portia Coughlan premiered on the Abbey Theatre's Peacock Stage, Dublin, in April 1996 and transferred to the Royal Court Theatre, London, in May that year. It was revived at the Almeida Theatre, London, in October 2023. 'Taut and haunting, funny and sad . . . Carr plays with time and place to resonant, ultimately devastating effect.' The Stage 'One of the most important Irish plays of the twentieth century.' Arts Review 'Marina Carr goes to a deep place that has not just to do with society now but that touches an inner tragedy of existence. The female quality of her writing comes through not only in the way she writes about women, it's in the physicality in her writing. She is right in there with the cycles of life, with the blood and the dirt.' Joyce McMillan, New York Times

The Theatre of Marina Carr

Cathy Leeney,Anna McMullan
The Theatre of Marina Carr Book PDF

Author : Cathy Leeney,Anna McMullan
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0953425770

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The Theatre of Marina Carr by Cathy Leeney,Anna McMullan Pdf

"This is the first collection of articles to be published on the theatre of Marina Carr, a major contemporary Irish playwright whose work is highly acclaimed in Ireland and internationally for its poetic energy and its remarkable theatrical imagination." "These essays examine Carr's highly original voice, and place her plays in the context of current theatre in Ireland and abroad. They raise lively debate on contemporary representation of 'Irishness' on the stage, on the current state of Irish theatre, on the impact of female authorship on the canon of Irish theatre, and on Carr's portrayal of characters who are fundamentally at odds with the world around them."--BOOK JACKET.

No Country for Old Men

Paddy Lyons
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Author : Paddy Lyons
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3039118412

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Once a country of emigration and diaspora, in the 1990s Ireland began to attract immigration from other parts of the world: a new citizenry. By the first decade of the twenty-first century, the ratio between GDP and population placed Ireland among the wealthiest nations in the world. The Peace Agreements of the mid-1990s and the advent of power-sharing in Northern Ireland have enabled Ireland's story to change still further. No longer locked into troubles from the past, the Celtic Tiger can now leap in new directions. These shifts in culture have given Irish literature the opportunity to look afresh at its own past and, thereby, new perspectives have also opened for Irish Studies. The contributors to this volume explore these new openings; the essays examine writings from both now and the past in the new frames afforded by new times.

Ireland on Stage

Hiroko Mikami,Minako Okamuro,Naoko Yagi
Ireland on Stage Book PDF

Author : Hiroko Mikami,Minako Okamuro,Naoko Yagi
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1904505236

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Ireland on Stage by Hiroko Mikami,Minako Okamuro,Naoko Yagi Pdf

Essays on Irish theatre in the second half of the twentieth century

Critical Moments

Fintan O'Toole
Critical Moments Book PDF

Author : Fintan O'Toole
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1904505031

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Few figures are more respected and quoted internationally than Fintan O'Toole, both as a controversial and provocative political commentator and theatre critic. This extensive collection brings together a wide range of his writings going back to 1980. It provides a privileged insight into the great moments of contemporary Irish theatre, marking the contributions of playwrights (Carr, Murphy, Friel, McGuinness), directors (Hynes, Byrne), actors (Hickey, McKenna), and designers (Vanek, Frawley). It also demonstrates his unsettling of the usual "canon," with his thoughtful arguments promoting certain playwrights who deserve to up be there with Ireland's best, including Antoine O'Flatharta, Paul Mercier, Dermot Bolger, and David Byrne.

Marina Carr

Melissa Sihra
Marina Carr Book PDF

Author : Melissa Sihra
Publisher : Springer
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319983318

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This book locates the theatre of Marina Carr within a female genealogy that revises the patriarchal origins of modern Irish drama. The creative vision of Lady Augusta Gregory underpins the analysis of Carr’s dramatic vision throughout the volume in order to re-situate the woman artist as central to Irish theatre. For Carr, ‘writing is more about the things you cannot understand than the things you can’, and her evocation of ‘pastures of the unknown’ forms the thematic through-line of this work. Lady Gregory’s plays offer an intuitive lineage with Carr which can be identified in their use of language, myth, landscape, women, the transformative power of storytelling and infinite energies of nature and the Otherworld. This book reconnects the severed bridge between Carr and Gregory in order to acknowledge a foundational status for all women in Irish theatre.

Sacred Play

Anne F. O'Reilly
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Author : Anne F. O'Reilly
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1904505074

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Sacred Play by Anne F. O'Reilly Pdf

Examination of the soul and spirituality in Irish theatre

Twentieth-Century Irish Drama

Christopher Murray
Twentieth Century Irish Drama Book PDF

Author : Christopher Murray
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815606435

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Twentieth-Century Irish Drama by Christopher Murray Pdf

This work provides an overview of Irish theatre, read in the light of Ireland's self-definition. Mediating between history and its relations with politics and art, it attempts to do justice to the enabling and mirroring preoccupations of Irish drama.

Women and Embodied Mythmaking in Irish Theatre

Shonagh Hill
Women and Embodied Mythmaking in Irish Theatre Book PDF

Author : Shonagh Hill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108485333

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Women and Embodied Mythmaking in Irish Theatre by Shonagh Hill Pdf

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

The Art of Experience

Dagmara Gizło
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Author : Dagmara Gizło
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781000332216

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The Art of Experience provides an interdisciplinary analysis of selected plays from Ireland’s premier female playwright, Marina Carr. Dagmara Gizło explores the transformative impact of a theatrical experience in which interdisciplinary boundaries must be crossed. This book demonstrates that theatre is therapeutic and therapy is theatrical. The role of emotions, cognitions, and empathy in the theatrical experience is investigated throughout. Dagmara Gizło utilises the methodological tools stemming from modern empirically grounded psychology (such as cognitive-behavioural therapy or CBT) to the study of theatre’s transformative potential. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre, performance, and literature, and will be a fascinating read for those at the intersection of cognitive studies and the humanities.

Modern Anglophone Drama by Women

Alan P. Barr
Modern Anglophone Drama by Women Book PDF

Author : Alan P. Barr
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0820488887

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Modern Anglophone Drama by Women by Alan P. Barr Pdf

Alan P. Barr has brought together eleven world-class modern plays by women that show not only their artistry but also their variety and their passion. Drawn from nine different countries (other than the United States and England) that use English as their literary language, the plays reflect the concerns of women across the globe. The imagery and dramatic conventions may shift and the tones vary, but the need to be strong (and its difficulty), the sense of a world that is anything but nurturing or ideal, and the suspect nature of family life and relations are constant themes. The struggle over language, in countries that are very often ex-colonies, conveys the frequent overlap between feminist and postcolonial focuses. The diversity of Englishes on stages from Singapore to South Africa is a lovely curtain call to this theater festival.

Playing for Time

Geraldine Cousin
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Author : Geraldine Cousin
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 1847791689

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Playing for Time by Geraldine Cousin Pdf

Playing for time explores connections between theatre time, the historical moment and fictional time. Geraldine Cousin persuasively argues that a crucial characteristic of contemporary British theatre is its preoccupation with instability and danger, and traces images of catastrophe and loss in a wide range of recent plays and productions. The diversity of the texts that are examined is a major strength of the book. In addition to plays by contemporary dramatists, Cousin analyses staged adaptations of novels, and productions of plays by Euripides, Strindberg and Priestley. A key focus is Stephen Daldry's award-winning revival of Priestley's An Inspector Calls, which is discussed in relation both to other Priestley 'time' plays and to Caryl Churchill's apocalyptic Far Away. Lost children are a recurring motif: Bryony Lavery's Frozen, for example, is explored in the context of the Soham murders (which took place while the play was in production at the National Theatre), whilst three virtually simultaneous productions of Euripides' Hecuba are interpreted with regard to the Beslan massacre of schoolchildren.

Literary Drowning

Stephanie Pocock Boeninger
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Author : Stephanie Pocock Boeninger
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780815654971

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Literary Drowning by Stephanie Pocock Boeninger Pdf

Literary depictions of drowning or burial at sea provide fascinating glimpses into the often-conflicted human relationship with memory. For many cultures and religious traditions, properly remembering the dead involves burial, a funeral, and some kind of grave marker. Traditional rituals of memorialization are disturbed by the drowned body, which may remain lost at sea or be washed up unrecognized on a distant shore. The first book of its kind, Literary Drowning explores depictions of the drowned body in twentieth-century Irish and Caribbean postcolonial literature, uncovering a complex transatlantic conversation that reconsiders memory, forgetfulness, and the role that each plays in the making of the postcolonial subject and nation. Faced with fissures in cultural memory, postcolonial writers often identify their situation—and their nation’s—with that of the drowned body. Floating aimlessly without a grave, unmemorialized and perhaps unremembered, the drowned corpse embodies the troubled memory of the postcolonial nation or individual. Boeninger follows a trail of drowned bodies and literary influence from the turn-of-the-century Irish playwright J. M. Synge, through the poems and plays of St. Lucian Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, to the lesser-known work of Guyanese British novelist and poet David Dabydeen, and finally to the contemporary Irish plays of Marina Carr. Each author, while borrowing from those who came before, changes the image of the drowned body to reflect different facets of the project of remembering postcolonially.

Hysteria, Trauma and Melancholia

C. Wald
Hysteria Trauma and Melancholia Book PDF

Author : C. Wald
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230288614

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Hysteria, Trauma and Melancholia by C. Wald Pdf

Hysteria, trauma and melancholia are not only powerful tropes in contemporary culture, they are also prominent in the theatre. As the first study in its field, Hysteria, Trauma and Melancholia explores the characteristics and concerns of the Drama of Hysteria, Trauma and Melancholia through in-depth readings of representative plays.

Marina Carr and Greek Tragedy

Salomé Paul
Marina Carr and Greek Tragedy Book PDF

Author : Salomé Paul
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781003857679

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Marina Carr and Greek Tragedy by Salomé Paul Pdf

Marina Carr and Greek Tragedy examines the feminist transposition of Greek tragedy in the theatre of the contemporary Irish dramatist Marina Carr. Through a comparison of the plays based on classical drama with their ancient models, it investigates Carr’s transformation not only of the narrative but also of the form of Greek tragedy. As a religious and political institution of the 5th-century Athenian democracy, tragedy endorsed the sexist oppression of women. Indeed, the construction of female characters in Greek tragedy was entirely disconnected from the experience of womanhood lived by real women in order to embody the patriarchal values of Athenian democracy. Whether praised for their passivity or demonized for showing unnatural agency and subjectivity, women in Greek tragedy were conceived to (re)assert the supremacy of men. Carr’s theatre stands in stark opposition to such a purpose. Focusing on women’s struggle to achieve agency and subjectivity in a male-dominated world, her plays show the diversity of experiencing womanhood and sexist oppression in the Republic of Ireland, and the Western societies more generally. Yet, Carr’s enduring conversation with the classics in her theatre demonstrates the feminist willingness to alter the founding myths of Western civilisation to advocate for gender equality.