The Palgrave handbook of contemporary Irish theatre and performance. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Eamonn Jordan, Eric Weitz, editors.
• Editors: Jordan, Eamonn; Weitz, Eric
• Contents: 1. Introductions/Orientations.- 2.The Mainstream: Problematising and Theorising;Shaun Richards.- 3.The Theatre Royal, Dublin;Conor Doyle.- 4.The Politics of Performance: Theatre in and About Northern Ireland;Lisa Fitzpatrick.- 5.The Literary Tradition in the History of Modern Irish Drama;Christopher Murray.- 6.#WakingTheFeminists;Carole Quigley.- 7.Live Art in Ireland;Una Mannion.- 8.Gestures of Resistance: Dance in 1990s Ireland;Finola Cronin.- 9.Contemporary Theatre in Irish Language;Máirtín Coilféir.- 10. Theatre for Young Audiences in Ireland;Tom Maguire.- 11.Performance in the Community: Amateur Drama and Community Theatre;Elizabeth Howard.- 12.Performing Politics: Queer Theatre in Ireland, 1968-2017;J. Paul Halferty.- 13.Long Flame in the Hideous Gale: The Politics of Popular Irish Performance, 1950-2000;Susanne Colleary.- 14.Other Theatres;Christopher Collins.- 15.Independent Theatre and New Work;Gavin Kostick.- 16.Funding, Sponsorship and Touring;Shelley Troupe.- 17.New Century Theatre Companies;Cormac O'Brien.- 18.The Joyful Mysteries of Comedy;Bernard Farrell.- 19.Lambert Theatre and Puppetry Redefined;John McCormick.- 20.Scenic Transitions: From Drama to Experimental Practices in Irish Theatre;Noelia Ruiz.- 21.Key Moments and Relationships: Working with Pat Kinevane;Jim Culleton.- 22.Irish Cinema and Theatre;Ruth Barton.- 23.Actor Training Ireland since 1965;Rhona Trench.- 24.Ireland: A Designer's Theatre;Siobhán O'Gorman.- 25.Props at the Abbey;Eimer Murphy.- 26.Ireland: An Actor's Theatre;Bernadette Sweeney.- 27.The Figurative Artist: ÚNA'N'ANU;Úna Kavanagh.- 28.Ireland: A Director's Theatre;Ian R. Walsh.- 29.In the wake of Olwen Fouéré's riverrun;Kellie Hughes.- 30.Ireland: A Writer's Theatre;Nicholas Grene.- 31.The Making of Mainstream;Rosaleen McDonagh.- 32.Participatory Performance: Spaces of Creative Negotiation;Kate McCarthy and Una Kealy.- 33.Other Spaces (Non-Theatre Spaces);Charlotte McIvor.- 34.Irish Plays in Other Places;Kevin Wallace.- 35.Adaptation and Transformation;Anne Fogarty.- 36.Circuitous Pathways: Marina Carr's Labyrinth of Feminist Form in the US World Premiere of Phaedra Backwards;Melissa Sihra.- 37.Being Intercultural in Irish Theatre and Performance; Cathy Leeney.- 38.Once Upon a Time in the Life of Arambe: A Personal Reflection;Bisi Adigun.- 39.Intercultural Arrivals and Encounters with Trauma in Contemporary Irish Drama;Eva Urban.- 40.Dramaturgical Complicity: Representing Trauma in Brokentalkers' Blue Boy;Kate Donoghue.- 41.Between the City and the Village: Liminal Spaces and Ambivalent Identities in Contemporary Irish Theatre;Brian Devaney.- 42.Verse in Twenty-First Century Irish Theatre;Kasia Lech.- 43.The Gate Theatre on the Road: O'Casey, Pinter and Friel;Mária Kurdi.- 44.Festivals and Curation;Willie White.- 45.Interart Relations and Self-reflexivity in Contemporary Irish Drama;Csilla Bertha.- 46."Contempt of Flesh": adventures in the uncanny valley;Ashley Taggart.- 47.The Dance of Affect in Contemporary Irish Dance Theatre;Aoife McGrath.- 48.Artistic Vision and Regional Resistance: The Gods Are Angry, Miss Kerr and the Red Kettle Theatre Company;Richard Hayes and Una Kealy.- 49.Cultural Materialism and a Class Consciousness?;Erica Meyers.- 50.The Utilisation of Domestic Space in the Reflection of Economic Struggles of Modern Living in Conor McPherson's New Translation of The Nest;Maha Alatawi.- 51.Audiences: Immersive and Participatory;Ciara L. Murphy.- 52.Sounding Affect in Pan Pan Theatre's Adaptation of All That Fall;Angela Butler.- 53.Music in Irish Theatre: the sound of the people;Ciara Fleming.- 54.Sightings of Comic Dexterity;Eric Weitz.- 55.Acts of Remembering in Irish Theatre;Emilie Pine.- 56.Staging a Response: No Escape and the rise of documentary theatre in Ireland;Luke Lamont.- 57.Children of the Revolution: 1916-2016;James Moran.- 58.Post-feminism and Ethical Issues in Four Post-Celtic Tiger Irish Plays;Mária Kurdi.- 59.Reflections on Bernard Shaw and the 21st Century Dublin Stage;Audrey McNamara.- 60.'Endless Art': The Contemporary Archive of Performance;Barry Houlihan.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 792.09415; Theater -- Ireland; Performing arts -- Ireland; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General; Theater; Performing Arts -- Theater -- General; Theatre studies; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137585882; 1137585889
• Related ISBNs: 1137585870; 9781137585875
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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