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Author : Nicholas Grene
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781904505136
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Irish Theatre on Tour written by Nicholas Grene and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the touring of Irish theatre, at home and abroad.
Author : Mary Trotter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745654479
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Modern Irish Theatre written by Mary Trotter and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Eamonn Jordan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137585889
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
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.
Author : Genevieve Graham
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501142925
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Come from Away written by Genevieve Graham and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Tides of Honour and Promises to Keep comes a poignant novel about a young couple caught on opposite sides of the Second World War. In the fall of 1939, Grace Baker’s three brothers, sharp and proud in their uniforms, board Canadian ships headed for a faraway war. Grace stays behind, tending to the homefront and the general store that helps keep her small Nova Scotian community running. The war, everyone says, will be over before it starts. But three years later, the fighting rages on and rumours swirl about “wolf packs” of German U-Boats lurking in the deep waters along the shores of East Jeddore, a stone’s throw from Grace’s window. As the harsh realities of war come closer to home, Grace buries herself in her work at the store. Then, one day, a handsome stranger ventures into the store. He claims to be a trapper come from away, and as Grace gets to know him, she becomes enamoured by his gentle smile and thoughtful ways. But after several weeks, she discovers that Rudi, her mysterious visitor, is not the lonely outsider he appears to be. He is someone else entirely—someone not to be trusted. When a shocking truth about her family forces Grace to question everything she has so strongly believed, she realizes that she and Rudi have more in common than she had thought. And if Grace is to have a chance at love, she must not only choose a side, but take a stand. Come from Away is a mesmerizing story of love, shifting allegiances, and second chances, set against the tumultuous years of the Second World War.
Author : Mary Trotter
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745633439
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Modern Irish Theatre written by Mary Trotter and published by Polity. This book was released on 2008-11-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Patrick Lonergan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147426266X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Irish Drama and Theatre Since 1950 written by Patrick Lonergan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on major new archival discoveries and recent research, Patrick Lonergan presents an innovative account of Irish drama and theatre, spanning the past seventy years. Rather than offering a linear narrative, the volume traces key themes to illustrate the relationship between theatre and changes in society. In considering internationalization, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the Celtic Tiger period, feminism, and the changing status of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Lonergan asserts the power of theatre to act as an agent of change and uncovers the contribution of individual artists, plays and productions in challenging societal norms. Irish Drama and Theatre since 1950 provides a wide-ranging account of major developments, combined with case studies of the premiere or revival of major plays, the establishment of new companies and the influence of international work and artists, including Tennessee Williams, Chekhov and Brecht. While bringing to the fore some of the untold stories and overlooked playwrights following the declaration of the Irish Republic, Lonergan weaves into his account the many Irish theatre-makers who have achieved international prominence in the period: Samuel Beckett, Siobhán McKenna and Brendan Behan in the 1950s, continuing with Brian Friel and Tom Murphy, and concluding with the playwrights who emerged in the late 1990s, including Martin McDonagh, Enda Walsh, Conor McPherson, Marie Jones and Marina Carr. The contribution of major Irish companies to world theatre is also examined, including both the Abbey and Gate theatres, as well as Druid, Field Day and Charabanc. Through its engaging analysis of seventy years of Irish theatre, this volume charts the acts of gradual but revolutionary change that are the story of Irish theatre and drama and of its social and cultural contexts.
Author : C. S. Lewis
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe written by C. S. Lewis and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" by C. S. Lewis. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Lady Gregory
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Our Irish Theatre written by Lady Gregory and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marina Carr
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571389198
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)
Download or read book Portia Coughlan written by Marina Carr and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 1997. 'Carr's harrowing play has the scale and anguish of myth, and the immediacy of a contemporary anecdote.' Independent on Sunday There's a wolf tooth growin in me heart and it's turnin me from everywan and everthin I am. Portia Coughlan lives life in monstrous limbo, haunted by a yearning for her spectral twin brother lying at the bottom of the Belmont river, unable to find any love for her wealthy husband and children, seeking solace in soulless affairs, deeply afraid of what she might do. Portia Coughlan premiered on the Abbey Theatre's Peacock Stage, Dublin, in April 1996 and transferred to the Royal Court Theatre, London, in May that year. It was revived at the Almeida Theatre, London, in October 2023. 'Taut and haunting, funny and sad . . . Carr plays with time and place to resonant, ultimately devastating effect.' The Stage 'One of the most important Irish plays of the twentieth century.' Arts Review 'Marina Carr goes to a deep place that has not just to do with society now but that touches an inner tragedy of existence. The female quality of her writing comes through not only in the way she writes about women, it's in the physicality in her writing. She is right in there with the cycles of life, with the blood and the dirt.' Joyce McMillan, New York Times
Author : Anne Etienne
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319597108
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)
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.
Author : Eugene O'Neill
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822213932
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (139 download)
Download or read book A Touch of the Poet written by Eugene O'Neill and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1994-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: As told by Chapman, (NY News): The time of the play is 1828, and the setting is a tavern in a village near Boston. The tavern is owned by a tempestuous Irishman, Con Melody, who is as proud as he is ill-tempered. He had been born with w
Author : Barry Monahan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780716528968
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Ireland's Theatre on Film written by Barry Monahan and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth examination of the association between Irish theatre and film across a significant period of the last century. Divided into three interwoven sections, the book considers the relationship historically (as functional, financial, and political) between the Abbey Theatre and film practitioners from the beginning of the sound period. Secondly, it explores the adaptation for screen of a number of plays from the Abbey repertoire and it considers how key directors such as John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, and Carol Reed used a theatricality of performance and narrative of 'Irishness' to cinematic effect. Thirdly, it looks at the implications for a cinematic style of performances by stage actors, both individually and in groups. The book introduces an original perspective on understanding a theatricality of film. This includes adaptations and appropriations of dramatic texts for the screen, the interactions of Irish stage performers and internationally established directors, and the merging of performative styles through the two media. It lucidly introduces theories of theatre, cinema, and the nation that will cater to non-experts in each of the fields, as much as it will propose new avenues of study for researchers who have already a significant level of expertise in the areas covered. It also brings to light new information gathered from documents, papers, and other archival sources to explain the significance of the theatre and film relationship in Ireland.
Author : B. Singleton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230294537
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Masculinities and the Contemporary Irish Theatre written by B. Singleton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish theatre and its histories appear to be dominated by men and their actions. This book's socially and culturally contextualized analysis of performance over the last two decades, however reveals masculinities that are anything but hegemonic, played out in theatres and other arenas of performance all over Ireland.
Author : Darren Murphy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350335444
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book X’ntigone written by Darren Murphy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes a person needs to create an act that destroys the world because the world is broken. The virus has ravaged Thebes. Millions are dead and the economy has tanked. Vaccinations have been administered and the Festival of Liberty is imminent. Things are finally about to change. The countdown is on but leader Creon and his quarantined niece, the self-identifying X'ntigone, have unfinished business before the celebrations can commence. What happens when old-world order meets a radical new world vision? In this thrilling meditation on Sophocles' timeless Greek tragedy, political expediency meets the voice of a generation who want to tear down the power structures that have ill-served a crumbling state. Darren Murphy's X'ntigone is a fresh and vital discourse for our times, when even truth has been sacrificed at the altar of political gain and avarice.
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Author : Hugh Hunt
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231049061
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Abbey, Ireland's National Theatre, 1904-1978 [i.e. 1979] written by Hugh Hunt and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the evolution of the Abbey Theatre from amateur organization to professional theatre of international renown, examining its history within the context of Ireland's social and political environment and in relation to its playwrights, directors, andactors
Author : Dead Centre
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783197587
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Chekhov's First Play written by Dead Centre and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I’m having absolutely nothing to do with the theatre or the human race. They can all go to hell.’ – Anton Chekhov During the turmoil of the Russian Revolution in 1917, Maria Chekhov, Anton’s sister, placed many of her late brother’s manuscripts and papers in a safety deposit box in Moscow. In 1921 Soviet scholars opened the box, and discovered a play. The title page was missing. The play they found has too many characters, too many themes, too much action. All in all, it’s generally dismissed as unstageable. Like life. A new play by Dead Centre, creators of the OBIE / Fringe First winning LIPPY.
Author : Eamonn Jordan
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780953425716
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (257 download)
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
