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Reviewing
(Routledge, 2015-02-12)
This article explores the practice of reviewing, using the methodologies associated with theatre criticism to consider how best to manage the academic practice of reviewing.
"I Do Repent and Yet I Do Despair": Beckettian and Faustian allusions in Conor McPherson's the Seafarer and Mark O'Rowe's Terminus
(Routledge, 2012)
In a press interview in April 2007, Conor McPherson correctly anticipated the
imminent conclusion of the ‘Celtic Tiger’ period – the decade-long economic
boom that had transformed Ireland into one of the world’s richest ...
Review of Stewart Parker: A Life by Marilynne Richtarik
(Modern Humanities Research Association, 2015-10)
Stewart Parker is ofen spoken of as Ireland’s most unjustly neglected dramatist.
His first play, Spokesong, was an unexpected hit at the Dublin Teatre Festival in
1975; his last play, Pentecost (1987), is one of the great ...
“Old Fools are Babes Again”: Shakespeare at the Abbey Theatre: programme note for King Lear directed by Selina Cartmell at the Abbey Theatre
(Abbey Theatre, 2013)
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The Field by John B. Keane, Olympia Theatre
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2011)
Irish attitudes towards John B. Keane have changed a lot during the last ten years – due largely to Garry Hynes’
production of four of his plays during that period. Keane has always been popular, but he was also seen by ...
Queer notions: new plays and performances from Ireland by Fintan Walsh
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2011-01-30)
Fintan Walsh’s new anthology begins with a line that seems in danger of subverting the rest of the book. “There is strength
in numbers, so they say,” writes Frank McGuinness in his foreword – before adding “I’ve never ...
The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh, Young Vic Theatre
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2010)
When Martin McDonagh’s Leenane plays first appeared in Ireland, they seemed exciting for many reasons: their
delinquent humour, their rootedness in (but distance from) the Irish dramatic tradition, their wilfully ...
Once: the musical by Enda Walsh, Gaiety Theatre
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2013)
As we enter the Gaiety, we discover that Once has already begun: the cast are gathered in what looks like an ordinary pub
where a session is underway. They play music for about twenty minutes while members of the audience ...
Faith Healer by Brian Friel, Gate Theatre
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2010)
During the last decade, Owen Roe has emerged as one of Ireland’s very best actors – yet, until now, he’s rarely filled a
major leading role. His performance as the Irishman in Ben Barnes’s 2001 Gigli Concert was astonishing ...
An enemy of the people, Ibsen adapted by Arthur Miller, Gate Theatre
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2013)
Ibsen’s 1882 An Enemy of the People is sometimes described as a problem play, in that it dramatises a compelling debate
between two brothers about the nature of morality and individual responsibility. But that term might ...