This is the first peer-reviewed international journal since the early 2000s to focus on performance studies as it relates to Ireland.
Active Speech will take place online. Recorded presentations from 12th February Live events 2pm – 4.30pm GMT 19th Feb. For more info & bookings click here. ‘Active Speech: Sharing Scholarship on Teresa Deevy’ constitutes the first conference focusing on Deevy’s work and aims to provide a forum …
Hard Graft: Performance, Labour and Value Queen’s University Belfast May 28th and 29th, 2021 The annual conference of the Irish Society for Theatre Research invites papers and performance presentations that consider the intersection of performance, labour and value. How is labour valued in theatre and performance scholarship and practice? …
Despite the enormous challenges since the onset of Covid-19, the power of our performance culture has permeated our world across the web.
Based on extensive archival research, this open access book examines the poetics and politics of the Dublin Gate Theatre over the first three decades of its existence.
Adaptation Considered as a Collaborative Art: Process and Practice. Edited by Bernadette Cronin, Rachel MagShamhráin and Nikolai Preuschoff.
Applications are open for a DfE funded scholarship for a PhD researcher.
The School of Arts, English and Languages at Queen’s in association with the Irish Society for Theatre Research is holding a one-day symposium on Practice as Research (PaR) processes in the creative arts at the Brian Friel Centre on Friday, 14th June 2019.
New Deadline: 29 May 2020 ISTR runs an annual essay competition for New Scholars. There is no set theme for this competition; rather, candidates are encouraged to submit work drawing on their current research in the area of drama, theatre and performance. New research or essays developed from papers …
The ISTR 2020 conference at Queen’s University Belfast, 29-30 May 2020, has been postponed until May 2021 due to the Coronavirus pandemic. We sincerely regret that we will not be gathering our wonderful ISTR colleagues together this year. However, in the wake of the societal and disciplinary change that is emerging …
