The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance

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 Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxiii Introductions/Orientations (Eamonn Jordan, Eric Weitz)....Pages 1-28 Front Matter ....Pages 29-29 The Mainstream: Problematising and Theorising (Shaun Richards)....Pages 31-44 The Theatre Royal: Dublin (Conor Doyle)....Pages 45-49 The Politics of Performance: Theatre in and about Northern Ireland (Lisa Fitzpatrick)....Pages 51-67 The Literary Tradition in the History of Modern Irish Drama (Christopher Murray)....Pages 69-83 #WakingTheFeminists (Carole Quigley)....Pages 85-91 Live Art in Ireland (Una Mannion)....Pages 93-112 Gestures of Resistance: Dance in 1990s Ireland (Finola Cronin)....Pages 113-133 Contemporary Theatre in the Irish Language (Máirtín Coilféir)....Pages 135-149 Theatre for Young Audiences in Ireland (Tom Maguire)....Pages 151-164 Performance in the Community: Amateur Drama and Community Theatre (Elizabeth Howard)....Pages 165-180 Performing Politics: Queer Theatre in Ireland, 1968–2017 (J. Paul Halferty)....Pages 181-199 Long Flame in the Hideous Gale: The Politics of Irish Popular Performance 1950–2000 (Susanne Colleary)....Pages 201-220 Other Theatres (Christopher Collins)....Pages 221-232 Independent Theatre and New Work (Gavin Kostick)....Pages 233-237 Funding, Sponsorship and Touring: Causing a Co-Motion (Shelley Troupe)....Pages 239-253 New Century Theatre Companies: From Dramatist to Collective (Cormac O’Brien)....Pages 255-268 Front Matter ....Pages 269-269 The Joyful Mysteries of Comedy (Bernard Farrell)....Pages 271-285 The Lambert Theatre and Puppetry Redefined (John McCormick)....Pages 287-292 Scenic Transitions: From Drama to Experimental Practices in Irish Theatre (Noelia Ruiz)....Pages 293-308 Key Moments and Relationships: Working with Pat Kinevane (Jim Culleton)....Pages 309-313 Irish Cinema and Theatre: Adapting to Change (Ruth Barton)....Pages 315-329 Actor Training in Ireland Since 1965 (Rhona Trench)....Pages 331-340 Irish Theatre: A Designer’s Theatre (Siobhán O’Gorman)....Pages 341-360 Props to the Abbey Prop Man (Eimer Murphy)....Pages 361-374 Irish Theatre: An Actor’s Theatre (Bernadette Sweeney)....Pages 375-391 The Figurative Artist & ÚNA’N’ANU (Úna Kavanagh)....Pages 393-397 Irish Theatre: A Director’s Theatre (Ian R. Walsh)....Pages 399-413 In the Wake of Olwen Fouéré’s riverrun (Kellie Hughes)....Pages 415-419 Irish Theatre: A Writer’s Theatre (Nicholas Grene)....Pages 421-434 The Making of Mainstream (Rosaleen McDonagh)....Pages 435-441 Participatory Performance: Spaces of Creative Negotiation (Kate McCarthy, Úna Kealy)....Pages 443-462 Front Matter ....Pages 463-463 Other Spaces (Non-theatre Spaces) (Charlotte McIvor)....Pages 465-486 Irish Plays in Other Places: Royal Court, RSC, Washington and Berlin (Kevin Wallace)....Pages 487-499 Ripping Up the Original?: Fictional Adaptations in Contemporary Irish Theatre (Anne Fogarty)....Pages 501-515 Circuitous Pathways: Marina Carr’s Labyrinth of Feminist Form in the US World Premiere of Phaedra Backwards (Melissa Sihra)....Pages 517-525 Being Intercultural in Irish Theatre and Performance (Cathy Leeney)....Pages 527-545 Once Upon a Time in the Life of Arambe: A Personal Reflection (Bisi Adigun)....Pages 547-554 Intercultural Arrivals and Encounters with Trauma in Contemporary Irish Drama (Eva Urban)....Pages 555-573 Dramaturgical Complicity: Representing Trauma in Brokentalkers’ The Blue Boy (Kate Donoghue)....Pages 575-580 Between the City and the Village: Liminal Spaces and Ambivalent Identities in Contemporary Irish Theatre (Brian Devaney)....Pages 581-598 Verse in Twenty-First Century Irish Theatre (Kasia Lech)....Pages 599-613 The Gate Theatre on the Road: O’Casey, Pinter and Friel (Mária Kurdi)....Pages 615-629 Festivals and Curation: What Is a Festival For? (Willie White)....Pages 631-636 Interart Relations and Self-Reflexivity in Contemporary Irish Drama (Csilla Bertha)....Pages 637-655 “Contempt of Flesh”: Adventures in the Uncanny Valley—Stacey Gregg’s Override (Ashley Taggart)....Pages 657-663 Front Matter ....Pages 665-665 The Dance of Affect in Contemporary Irish Dance Theatre (Aoife McGrath)....Pages 667-682 Artistic Vision and Regional Resistance: The Gods Are Angry, Miss Kerr and the Red Kettle Theatre Company, a Case Study (Richard Hayes, Úna Kealy)....Pages 683-698 Cultural Materialism and a Class Consciousness? (Erika Meyers)....Pages 699-710 The Utilization of Domestic Space in the Reflection of Social and Economic Struggles of Modern Living in Conor McPherson’s New Translation of The Nest (Maha Alatawi)....Pages 711-715 Audiences: Immersive and Participatory (Ciara L. Murphy)....Pages 717-736 Sounding Affect in Pan Pan Theatre’s Adaptation of All That Fall (Angela Butler)....Pages 737-742 Music in Irish Theatre: The Sound of the People (Ciara Fleming)....Pages 743-758 Sightings of Comic Dexterity (Eric Weitz)....Pages 759-761 Theatre as Memory: Acts of Remembering in Irish Theatre (Emilie Pine)....Pages 763-775 Staging a Response: No Escape and the Rise of Documentary Theatre in Ireland (Luke Lamont)....Pages 777-782 Children of the Revolution: 1916 in 2016 (James Moran)....Pages 783-798 Postfeminism and Ethical Issues in Four Post-Celtic Tiger Irish Plays by Women (Mária Kurdi)....Pages 799-817 Reflections on Bernard Shaw and the Twenty-First Century Dublin Stage (Audrey McNamara)....Pages 819-825 “Endless Art”: The Contemporary Archive of Performance (Barry Houlihan)....Pages 827-846 Back Matter ....Pages 847-866