From the Late Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century
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Irish Theatre in Transition celebrates the creative and richly vibrant Irish theatre which, since its inception, has always been in transition. Fifteen Irish theatre scholars, building on Christopher Murray’s foundational essay on the first hundred years, explore Irish theatre’s significance under the headings of ‘Engaging with a Changing Reality’ (of the Celtic Tiger, the sexual revolution, dementia), ‘Enhanced Theatricality’, ‘Reframing Transition’, and ‘Inventiveness and Expanding the Stage’ and discuss Irish plays in London, varied performances across Ireland in a year, Shakespeare, and Sam Shepard as Irish playwright.
The book is designed to show some of the myriad forms of transition: how this theatre reflects the changing conditions of a changing society and nation; how it innovates by returning to its roots or to abandoned but still viable theatrical conventions; how it continually reinvents itself and experiments with new media, and how it moves beyond the local and dares to imagine new audiences.
Donald E. Morse is University Professor of American, Irish and English Literature at the University of Debrecen, Hungary and Professor Emeritus of English and Rhetoric at Oakland University, USA. He has published widely in Irish Studies, including essays in scholarly journals and edited volumes around the world. Several of his books have been written or edited with the Hungarian Irish scholar, Csilla Bertha, and include More Real than Reality: The Fantastic in Irish Literature and the Arts (1991), A Small Nation’s Contribution to the World (1993), Worlds Visible and Invisble(1994) and The Dramatic Artistry of Brian Friel (with Mária Kurdi, 2006).
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| ISBN | 9781137450692 |
| Publication Date | January 2015 |
| Formats | Ebook (PDF) Hardcover Ebook (EPUB) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
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Table of Contents
Introduction: The Irish Theater in Transition; Donald E Morse
PART I: FOUNDATIONS AND REFOUNDATIONS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
1. The Irish Theatre: The First Hundred Years 1897-1997; Christopher Murray
PART II: ENGAGING WITH A CHANGING REALITY
2. Black Hole Experiences: Moochers, Smoochers, Dig Outs and the Parables and
Spasms of Time in Conor McPherson’s The Night Alive; Eamonn Jordan
3. Queer Creatures, Queer Places: Otherness and Normativity in Irish Drama
from Synge to Friel; José Lanters
4. Troubled Relations of Gender and Generation in Celtic Tiger Drama: Stella Feehily’s
Duck and O Go My Man; Mária Kurdi
5. ‘The Politics of Aging’: Frank McGuinness’s The Hanging Gardens; Donald E Morse
PART III: ENHANCED THEATRICALITY
6. The Play within the Play in Select Contemporary Irish Plays; Csilla Bertha
7. When the Mirror Laughs: Face to Face with Three Irish Stage Worlds; Eric Weitz
8. Then Like Gigli, Now Like Bette: The Grotesque and the Sublime in
Mark O’Rowe’s Terminus; Ondřej Pilný
PART IV: REFRAIMING TRANSITION
9. Shakespearean Productions at the Abbey Theatre: 1970-1985; Patrick Lonergan
10. Snapshots: A Year in the Life of a Theatre Judge; Nicholas Grene
11. The Irish Play on the London Stage: An Overview from Independence to the Present; Peter James Harris
PART V: INVENTIVENESS AND EXPANDING THE STAGE
12. The Diverse Dramatic Contributions of Frank McGuinness; Helen Heuser Lojek
13. Pat Kinevane’s Forgotten and Silent: Universalizing the Abject; Joan FitzPatrick Dean
14. Writing for ‘the real national theatre’ – Stewart Parker’s Plays for Television; Clare Wallace
15. Playing with Minds: Beckett on Film; Dawn Duncan
PART VI: ON THE RE-FOUNDATION OF THE IRISH THEATRE
16. Sam Shepard, Irish Playwright; Stephen Watt
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index
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Contributors
- Csilla Bertha, University of Debrecen, Hungary
- Dawn Duncan, Concordia College-Moorhead, USA
- Joan FitzPatrick Dean, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
- Nicholas Grene, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- Peter James Harris, State University of São Paulo, Brazil
- Eamonn Jordan, University College Dublin, Ireland
- Mária Kurdi, University of Pécs, Hungary
- José Lanters, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
- Helen Heusner Lojek, Boise State University, USA
- Patrick Lonergan, National University of Ireland-Galway, Ireland
- Donald E. Morse, University of Debrecen, Hungary
- Christopher Murray, University College-Dublin, Ireland
- Ondřej Pilný, Charles University, Czech Republic
- Clare Wallace, Charles University, Czech Republic
- Stephen Watt, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
- Eric Weitz, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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