Perspectives on Contemporary Irish Theatre - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perspectives on Contemporary Irish Theatre write by Anne Etienne. This book was released on 2017-10-20. Perspectives on Contemporary Irish Theatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book addresses the notion posed by Thomas Kilroy in his definition of a playwright’s creative process: ‘We write plays, I feel, in order to populate the stage’. It gathers eclectic reflections on contemporary Irish theatre from both Irish theatre practitioners and international academics. The eighteen contributions offer innovative perspectives on Irish theatre since the early 1990s up to the present, testifying to the development of themes explored by emerging and established playwrights as well as to the (r)evolutions in practices and approaches to the stage that have taken place in the last thirty years. This cross-disciplinary collection devotes as much attention to contextual questions and approaches to the stage in practice as it does to the play text in its traditional and revised forms. The essays and interviews encourage dialectic exchange between analytical studies on contemporary Irish theatre and contributions by theatre practitioners.
The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance
The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance write by Eamonn Jordan. This book was released on 2018-09-18. The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Handbook offers a multiform sweep of theoretical, historical, practical and personal glimpses into a landscape roughly characterised as contemporary Irish theatre and performance. Bringing together a spectrum of voices and sensibilities in each of its four sections — Histories, Close-ups, Interfaces, and Reflections — it casts its gaze back across the past sixty years or so to recall, analyse, and assess the recent legacy of theatre and performance on this island. While offering information, overviews and reflections of current thought across its chapters, this book will serve most handily as food for thought and a springboard for curiosity. Offering something different in its mix of themes and perspectives, so that previously unexamined surfaces might come to light individually and in conjunction with other essays, it is a wide-ranging and indispensable resource in Irish theatre studies.
The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights
The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights write by Martin Middeke. This book was released on 2010-05-28. The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights is an authoritative guide to the work of twenty-five playwrights from the last 50 years whose work has helped to shape and define Irish theatre. Written by a team of international scholars, it provides an illuminating survey and analysis of each writer's plays and will be invaluable to anyone interested in, studying or teaching contemporary Irish drama. The playwrights examined range from John B. Keane, Brian Friel and Tom Murphy, to the crop of writers who emerged in the 1990s and who include Martin McDonagh, Marina Carr, Emma Donoghue and Mark O'Rowe. Each essay features: a biographical sketch and introduction to the playwright a discussion of their most important plays an analysis of their stylistic and thematic traits, the critical reception and their place in the discourses of Irish theatre a bibliography of texts and critical material With a total of 190 plays discussed in detail, over half of which were written during the 1990s and 2000s, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights is unrivalled in its study of recent plays and playwrights.
Modern Irish Theatre
Modern Irish Theatre - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modern Irish Theatre write by Mary Trotter. This book was released on 2013-05-08. Modern Irish Theatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analysing major Irish dramas and the artists and companies that performed them, Modern Irish Theatre provides an engaging and accessible introduction to twentieth-century Irish theatre: its origins, dominant themes, relationship to politics and culture, and influence on theatre movements around the world. By looking at her subject as a performance rather than a literary phenomenon, Trotter captures how Irish theatre has actively reflected and shaped debates about Irish culture and identity among audiences, artists, and critics for over a century. This text provides the reader with discussion and analysis of: Significant playwrights and companies, from Lady Gregory to Brendan Behan to Marina Carr, and from the Abbey Theatre to the Lyric Theatre to Field Day; Major historical events, including the war for Independence, the Troubles, and the social effects of the Celtic Tiger economy; Critical Methodologies: how postcolonial, diaspora, performance, gender, and cultural theories, among others, shed light on Irish theatre’s political and artistic significance, and how it has addressed specific national concerns. Because of its comprehensiveness and originality, Modern Irish Theatre will be of great interest to students and general readers interested in theatre studies, cultural studies, Irish studies, and political performance.
Contemporary Irish Drama
Contemporary Irish Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemporary Irish Drama write by Anthony Roche. This book was released on 1994. Contemporary Irish Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By comparing the theatre of Samuel Beckett to more culturally specific Irish plays, the book establishes a greater international and theatrically experimental context for the field than has been recognised. Its three central chapters offer close and contextualised readings of the careers of Brian Friel, Tom Murphy and Thomas Kilroy across a span of more than four decades. The drama of Northern Ireland and its theatrical response to political violence receives sustained attention through a wide range of playwrights, including Frank McGuinness, Gary Mitchell, Christina Reid and Anne Devlin. A new chapter considers the work of such younger playwrights as Martin McDonagh and Marina Carr who emerged in the 1990s to probe the shortcomings of the 'Celtic Tiger' phenomenon.
