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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays showcases the rich diversity of current writing about Irish theatre. The volume includes perspectives from experts in scenography, physical theatre, dramaturgy and stand-up comedy, as well as academic contributions drawing from anthropology, psychology, sociology, gender studies and performance studies. Exploring plays, events, exhibitions, performances, and rehearsal and realization processes, the essays provide a stimulating analysis of the languages and procedures of theatre in Ireland. The book demonstrates that performance studies and practices are continuing to expand, suggesting that Ireland’s text-centric theatre has begun to cast its net further afield and pointing to the rich possibilities within Irish theatre, scholarship and practice, now and for the future.
Table of ContentsContents: Thomas Kilroy: Foreword – Rhona Trench: Introduction - Staging Thought: Essays on Irish Theatre, Scholarship and Practice – Frank Conway: The Sound of One Hand Clapping – Rhona Trench: A Blend of Irish and European Theatre Process and Practice: Blue Raincoat Theatre Company’s Production of W.B. Yeats’s
The Cat and the Moon (1926) – Carmen Szabo: Place and Non-Place: Discussing Physicality and Story in Barabbas Theatre Company’s
Circus (2007) – Agnes Pallai: Cultural Differences in Staging Brian Friel’s
Translations in Romania – Enrica Cerquoni: Ways of Seeing and the Womb-Theatre: Theatrical Space and Scenic Presentation in Marina Carr’s
Ariel – Virginie Privas-Bréauté: The Actor’s Body as a Heterotopic Language in Bill Morrison’s
The Marriage – Caoileann Thompson: Irish Theatre Studies in the Performance Age: The Case of Stewart Parker – Eamonn Jordan: ‘It Would Never Happen On
The Waltons’: Enda Walsh’s
The Walworth Farce – Eric Weitz: Sleight of Frame: Exploitations of Comic Feeling by Two Irish Playwrights – Suzanne Colleary: ‘God’s Comic’: Narratives of Performed Identity of Irish Stand-Up Comedian Tommy Tiernan – Fiona Fearon: Decoding the Audience: Enda Walsh’s
Chatroom (2008) – Mary Caulfield: Fashion Advice: Constance Markievicz’s ‘Unmarked’, ‘Mismarked’ and ‘Remarkable’ Women – Michael Jaros: Broken Narratives, Performing Ruins: Yeats, Beckett and the Dramatic Landscape of Catastrophe – Christopher Collins: J.M. Synge, W.B. Yeats and The Changeling of the Western World – Shonagh Hill: Female Self-Authorship and Reperformance of the ‘Good Death’ in Marina Carr’s
Woman and Scarecrow – Aoife McGrath: ‘The Less You Bump, The Faster You Go’?: Staged Scenes of Dissensus in CoisCéim’s
Dodgems – Steve Wilmer: Theatre and Nation: Performing Statelessness in Ireland and Abroad – Holly Maples: Performing Cultural Trauma: The 1980 ‘A Sense of Ireland’ Festival.
