Theatre And Ireland

Author : Marina Carr
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 43,9 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

Author : Darren Murphy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350335448

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X’ntigone by Darren Murphy Pdf

Sometimes a person needs to create an act that destroys the world because the world is broken. The virus has ravaged Thebes. Millions are dead and the economy has tanked. Vaccinations have been administered and the Festival of Liberty is imminent. Things are finally about to change. The countdown is on but leader Creon and his quarantined niece, the self-identifying X'ntigone, have unfinished business before the celebrations can commence. What happens when old-world order meets a radical new world vision? In this thrilling meditation on Sophocles' timeless Greek tragedy, political expediency meets the voice of a generation who want to tear down the power structures that have ill-served a crumbling state. Darren Murphy's X'ntigone is a fresh and vital discourse for our times, when even truth has been sacrificed at the altar of political gain and avarice.

Author : Fiona Shaw,Lionel Pilkington
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350316164

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Theatre and Ireland by Fiona Shaw,Lionel Pilkington Pdf

What is the significance of theatre and performance within Irish culture and history? How do we understand the impact and political potential of Irish theatre? This innovative survey of theatre in Ireland covers a range of drama and performance, from the 17th century to the present. Expanding the field of Irish theatre to include mumming, wake games, prison protests and theatre riots, the book argues that Ireland's longstanding association with performance illuminates key aspects of its cultural history and politics. Foreword by Fiona Shaw.

Author : Chris Morash,Shaun Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107039421

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Mapping Irish Theatre by Chris Morash,Shaun Richards Pdf

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

Author : Nicholas Grene,Chris Morash
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1904505139

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Irish Theatre on Tour by Nicholas Grene,Chris Morash Pdf

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

Author : Mary Trotter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780745654478

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Modern Irish Theatre by Mary Trotter Pdf

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.

Author : E.H. Mikhail
Publisher : Springer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1988-06-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781349085088

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Abbey Theatre by E.H. Mikhail Pdf

Author : Lilian Chambers
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0953425762

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Theatre Talk by Lilian Chambers Pdf

Interviews with Irish theatre practitioners

Author : Nicholas Grene,Chris Morash
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191016349

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre by Nicholas Grene,Chris Morash Pdf

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.

Author : Mary Trotter
Publisher : Polity
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780745633435

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Modern Irish Theatre by Mary Trotter Pdf

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.

Author : Eglantina Remport
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319766119

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Lady Gregory and Irish National Theatre by Eglantina Remport Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive critical assessment of the aesthetic and social ideals of Lady Augusta Gregory, founder, patron, director, and dramatist of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. It elaborates on her distinctive vision of the social role of a National Theatre in Ireland, especially in relation to the various reform movements of her age: the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, the Co-operative Movement, and the Home Industries Movement. It illustrates the impact of John Ruskin on the aesthetic and social ideals of Lady Gregory and her circle that included Horace Plunkett, George Russell, John Millington Synge, William Butler Yeats, and George Bernard Shaw. All of these friends visited the celebrated Gregory residence of Coole Park in Country Galway, most famously Yeats. The study thus provides a pioneering evaluation of Ruskin’s immense influence on artistic, social, and political discourse in Ireland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Author : Micheál Ó hAodha
Publisher : Oxford : Blackwell
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : English drama
ISBN : 0631148302

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Theatre in Ireland by Micheál Ó hAodha Pdf

Author : Christopher Murray
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : English drama
ISBN : 0719041570

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Twentieth-century Irish Drama by Christopher Murray Pdf

Murray provides an overview of a nation's theatre read in the light of a nation's self-definition. Mediating between history and its troubled relation with politics and art, he shows the preoccupations of Irish drama.

Author : Stephen Watt,Eileen Morgan,Shakir Mustafa
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 025321419X

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A Century of Irish Drama by Stephen Watt,Eileen Morgan,Shakir Mustafa Pdf

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

Author : Eamonn Jordan
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0953425711

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Theatre Stuff by Eamonn Jordan Pdf

Essays on contemporary Irish theatre