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Book SynopsisThis collection of fourteen new essays explores Irish theatre from exciting new perspectives. How has Irish theatre been received internationally – and, as the country becomes more multicultural, how will international theatre influence the development of drama in Ireland? As Ireland changes, how should we think about the works of familiar figures – writers like Synge, O’Casey, Friel, Murphy, Carr, and McGuinness? Is the distinction between popular and literary drama tenable in a Celtic Tiger Ireland where the arts and economics are becoming increasingly intertwined? And is it time to remember less established Irish writers? Drawing together a range of international experts, this book aims to answer these and many other important questions.
Table of ContentsCONTENTS: Christopher Murray: «Echoes Down the Corridor»: The Abbey Theatre 1904-2004 – Mary C. King: A Synge for Our Times? Yeats’s enquiring man revisited – Joan FitzPatrick Dean: Staging the Aesthetic: The Vagrant Artists of Padraic Colum and Seumas O’Kelly – Chiaki Kojima: Shoyo Matsui, A Japanese Lennox Robinson: The Irish National Theatre and Japanese New Drama – Irina Ruppo: Wessex to Geesala: Hardy and Synge – Paul O’Brien: Sean O’Casey and The Abbey Theatre: A Conflicted Relationship – Helen Lojek:
Observe the Sons of Ulster: Historical Stages – Christa Velten-Mrowka: «Am I a con man?»: Brian Friel’s idea of the self-reflective artist, viewed in the light of Adorno’s aesthetic theory – Alexandra Poulain: «A Voice and little else»: talking, writing and singing in
The Gigli Concert – Mária Kurdi: Spatializing the Renewal of Female Subjectivity in Marie Jones’s
Women on the Verge of HRT – Donal E. Morse: The Present through the Prism of the Past: Frank McGuinness’s
Dolly West’s Kitchen – Mika Funahashi: «Grow a Mermaid»: A Subtext for Marina Carr's Dramatic Works – Jason King: Beyond Ryanga: The Image of Africa in Contemporary Irish Theatre – Lisa Fitzpatrick: Nation and Myth in the Age of the Celtic Tiger: Muide Éire?
