Contemporary Irish Documentary Theatre

Download Contemporary Irish Documentary Theatre full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Contemporary Irish Documentary Theatre ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Contemporary Irish Documentary Theatre

Author : Mary Raftery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350094552
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Contemporary Irish Documentary Theatre by : Mary Raftery

Download or read book Contemporary Irish Documentary Theatre written by Mary Raftery and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Irish Documentary Theatre is the first anthology of Irish documentary drama. It features five challenging plays by Irish writers, and one by an international author, interrogating and commenting on crucial events of Irish history and of the diaspora, with introductory essays by established academics. Together these plays represent the most innovative development in contemporary Irish theatre and illuminate the social and political realities of contemporary Ireland. The first two plays, of 2010 and 2013, deal with scandals of clerical and institutional abuse, and use as source material the Ryan Report of 2009, and the documents from the 2008 Irish Bank Guarantee. The next two, of 2014 and 2013, concern interpretations of the most iconic moment of Irish history: the Easter Rising. The first of these is based on published statements of participants in the event and the second on the lived experiences of those in the contemporary Republic whose founding ideals have not been realized . The last two plays, of 2015 and 2016, widen the view to the history of the Irish in the diaspora: one retelling the history of emigration to England based on published research material; and the other tracing Roger Casement's experiences in the Amazon and his subsequent participation in the Easter Rising using extracts from his diaries and other writings. The plays included and discussed are: No Escape by Mary Raftery Guaranteed by Colin Murphy Of This Brave Time by Jimmy Murphy History by Grace Dyas My English Tongue, My Irish Heart by Martin Lynch The Two Deaths of Roger Casement by Domingos Nunez

The Modern Irish Drama

Author : Robert Goode Hogan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780851052748
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (527 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Modern Irish Drama by : Robert Goode Hogan

Download or read book The Modern Irish Drama written by Robert Goode Hogan and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

That Was Us

Author : Fintan Walsh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783195347
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis That Was Us by : Fintan Walsh

Download or read book That Was Us written by Fintan Walsh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of Ireland’s recent economic rise, fall, and associated social crises, theatre and performance have played vital roles in reflecting on the past, engaging the present, and imagining possible futures. That Was Us features a wide, rich range of critical essays and artist reflections that strive to make sense of some of the most significant shifts and trends in contemporary Irish theatre and performance. Focusing on artists connected to the Dublin Theatre Festival, the book addresses work by the Abbey Theatre, ANU Productions, Brokentalkers, The Corn Exchange, Druid, Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre, the Gate Theatre, Landmark Productions, Rough Magic Theatre Company, THEATREclub, Theatre Lovett, Pan Pan, The Stomach Box and THISISPOPBABY, among others. Some of the burgeoning forms and practices discussed include: site-specific and site-responsive theatre; testimonial, documentary, and biographical performance; dance theatre; theatre for children and families; new writing; and fresh takes on canonical writing staged at home or toured internationally. In bringing together critics and artists to think side by side, That Was Us is indispensable for anyone interested in contemporary practices and cultural politics. Contents 1. The Power of the Powerless: Theatre in Turbulent Times by Fintan Walsh ONE: Theatres of Testimony 2. ANU Productions and Site-Specific Performance: The Politics of Space and Place by Brian Singleton 3. Witnessing the (Broken) Nation: Theatre of the Real and Social Fragmentation in Brokentalkers’ Silver Stars, The Blue Boy, and Have I No Mouth by Charlotte McIvor 4. You Had to be There by Louise Lowe TWO: Auto/Biographical Performance 5. Making Space: Female-Authored Queer Performance in Irish Theatre by Oonagh Murphy 6. The Writing Life by Helen Meany 7. Metaphysicians of Unnatural Chaos: Memories of Genesi by Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio by Dylan Tighe THREE: Bodies Out of Bounds 8. Insider and Outsider: Michael Keegan-Dolan in the Irish Dance Landscape by Michael Seaver 9. And the Adults Came Too! Dublin Theatre Festival and the Development of Irish Children’s Theatre by Eimear Beardmore 10. Living Inspiration by John Scott FOUR: Placing Performance 11. Representations of Working-Class Dublin at the Dublin Theatre Festival by James Hickson 12. ‘Getting Known’: Beckett, Ireland, and the Creative Industries by Trish McTighe 13. The Art of Perspective by Michael West FIVE: Touring Performances 14. Druid Cycles: The Rewards of Marathon Productions by Tanya Dean 15. Staging the National in an International Context: Druid at the Dublin Theatre Festival by Sara Keating 16. Viewed from Afar: Contemporary Irish Theatre on the World’s Stages by Peter Crawley 17. A Dance You Associate With Your Family by Gary Keegan

Perspectives on Contemporary Irish Theatre

Author : Anne Etienne
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319597108
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Perspectives on Contemporary Irish Theatre by : Anne Etienne

Download or read book Perspectives on Contemporary Irish Theatre written by Anne Etienne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Modern Irish Drama

Author : Robert Hogan
Publisher : Smythe Colin Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Modern Irish Drama by : Robert Hogan

Download or read book The Modern Irish Drama written by Robert Hogan and published by Smythe Colin Limited. This book was released on 1975 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contemporary Irish Drama

Author : Anthony Roche
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Contemporary Irish Drama by : Anthony Roche

Download or read book Contemporary Irish Drama written by Anthony Roche and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Anthony Roche's pioneering survey of twentieth-century Irish drama brings the story up to date with new material on the contemporary Irish theatre scene.

The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance

Author : Eamonn Jordan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137585889
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance by : Eamonn Jordan

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance written by Eamonn Jordan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Fifty Key Irish Plays

Author : Shaun Richards
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000631273
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Fifty Key Irish Plays by : Shaun Richards

Download or read book Fifty Key Irish Plays written by Shaun Richards and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty Key Irish Plays charts the progression of modern Irish drama from Dion Boucicault’s entry on to the global stage of the Irish diaspora to the contemporary dramas created by the experiences of the New Irish. Each chapter provides a brief plot outline along with informed analysis and, alert to the cultural and critical context of each play, an account of the key roles that they played in the developing story of Irish drama. While the core of the collection is based on the critical canon, including work by J. M. Synge, Lady Gregory, Teresa Deevy, and Brian Friel, plays such as Tom Mac Intyre’s The Great Hunger and ANU Productions’ Laundry, which illuminate routes away from the mainstream, are also included. With a focus on the development of form as well as theme, the collection guides the reader to an informed overview of Irish theatre via succinct and insightful essays by an international team of academics. This invaluable collection will be of particular interest to undergraduate students of theatre and performance studies and to lay readers looking to expand their appreciation of Irish drama.

Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland

Author : Fintan Walsh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137534508
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland by : Fintan Walsh

Download or read book Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland written by Fintan Walsh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the surge of queer performance produced across Ireland since the first stirrings of the Celtic Tiger in the mid-1990s, up to the passing of the Marriage Equality referendum in the Republic in 2015.

Theatre Stuff

Author : Eamonn Jordan
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780953425716
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (257 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Theatre Stuff by : Eamonn Jordan

Download or read book Theatre Stuff written by Eamonn Jordan and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2000 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on contemporary Irish theatre

Contemporary Irish Drama

Author : Anthony Roche
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Contemporary Irish Drama by : Anthony Roche

Download or read book Contemporary Irish Drama written by Anthony Roche and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Memory Marketplace

Author : Emilie Pine
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253054982
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Memory Marketplace by : Emilie Pine

Download or read book The Memory Marketplace written by Emilie Pine and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when cultural memory becomes a commodity? Who owns the memory? In The Memory Marketplace, Emilie Pine explores how memory is performed both in Ireland and abroad by considering the significant body of contemporary Irish theatre that contends with its own culture and history. Analyzing examples from this realm of theatre, Pine focuses on the idea of witnesses, both as performers on stage and as members of the audience. Whose memories are observed in these transactions, and how and why do performances prioritize some memories over others? What does it mean to create, rehearse, perform, and purchase the theatricalization of memory? The Memory Marketplace shows this transaction to be particularly fraught in the theatricalization of traumatic moments of cultural upheaval, such as the child sexual abuse scandal in Ireland. In these performances, the role of empathy becomes key within the marketplace dynamic, and Pine argues that this empathy shapes the kinds of witnesses created. The complexities and nuances of this exchange—subject and witness, spectator and performer, consumer and commodified—provide a deeper understanding of the crucial role theatre plays in shaping public understanding of trauma, memory, and history.

Acting in Documentary Theatre

Author : Tom Cantrell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137019735
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Acting in Documentary Theatre by : Tom Cantrell

Download or read book Acting in Documentary Theatre written by Tom Cantrell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using new interview material with actors, directors and writers, this book explores the challenges of performance in documentary theatre. Through a series of high profile case studies, Cantrell uses acting theory to examine the actors' complex processes, and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of stage performance.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre

Author : Nicholas Grene
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191016349
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre by : Nicholas Grene

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre written by Nicholas Grene and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre provides the single most comprehensive survey of the field to be found in a single volume. Drawing on more than forty contributors from around the world, the book addresses a full range of topics relating to modern Irish theatre from the late nineteenth-century theatre to the most recent works of postdramatic devised theatre. Ireland has long had an importance in the world of theatre out of all proportion to the size of the country, and has been home to four Nobel Laureates (Yeats, Shaw, and Beckett; Seamus Heaney, while primarily a poet, also wrote for the stage). This collection begins with the influence of melodrama, looks at arguably the first modern Irish playwright, Oscar Wilde, before moving into a series of considerations of the Abbey Theatre, and Irish modernism. Arranged chronologically, it explores areas such as women in theatre, Irish-language theatre, and alternative theatres, before reaching the major writers of more recent Irish theatre, including Brian Friel and Tom Murphy, and their successors. There are also individual chapters focusing on Beckett and Shaw, as well as a series of chapters looking at design, acting and theatre architecture. The book concludes with an extended survey of the critical literature on the field. In each chapter, the author does not simply rehearse accepted wisdom; all of the authors push the boundaries of their respective fields, so that each chapter is a significant contribution to scholarship in its own right.

Irish Theatre in Transition

Author : D. Morse
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113745069X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Irish Theatre in Transition by : D. Morse

Download or read book Irish Theatre in Transition written by D. Morse and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irish Theatre in Transition explores the ever-changing Irish Theatre from its inception to its vibrant modern-day reality. This book shows some of the myriad forms of transition and how Irish theatre reflects the changing conditions of a changing society and nation.

Verbatim, Verbatim

Author : Will Hammond
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849436657
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (494 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Verbatim, Verbatim by : Will Hammond

Download or read book Verbatim, Verbatim written by Will Hammond and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five specially commissioned discussions of verbatim theatre - in the words of the people who make it. 'What a verbatim play does is flash your research nakedly. It’s like cooking a meal but the meat is left raw.’ - Max Stafford-Clark Plays which use people’s actual words as the basis for their dramaare not a new phenomenon. But from the stages of national theatres to fringe venues and universities everywhere, ‘verbatim’ theatre, as it has come to be known, is currently enjoying unprecedented attention and success. It has also attracted high-profile criticism and impassioned debate. In these wide-ranging essays and interviews, six leading dramatists describe their varying approaches to verbatim, examine the strengths and weaknesses of its techniques and explore the reasons for its current popularity. They discuss frankly the unique opportunities and ethical dilemmas that arise when portraying real people on stage, and consider some of the criticisms levelled at this controversial documentary form. 'The intention is always to arrive at the truth.' - Nicolas Kent

Critical Moments

Author : Fintan O'Toole
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781904505037
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Critical Moments by : Fintan O'Toole

Download or read book Critical Moments written by Fintan O'Toole and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2003 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few figures are more respected and quoted internationally than Fintan O'Toole, both as a controversial and provocative political commentator and theatre critic. This extensive collection brings together a wide range of his writings going back to 1980. It provides a privileged insight into the great moments of contemporary Irish theatre, marking the contributions of playwrights (Carr, Murphy, Friel, McGuinness), directors (Hynes, Byrne), actors (Hickey, McKenna), and designers (Vanek, Frawley). It also demonstrates his unsettling of the usual "canon," with his thoughtful arguments promoting certain playwrights who deserve to up be there with Ireland's best, including Antoine O'Flatharta, Paul Mercier, Dermot Bolger, and David Byrne.