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Better by design: the art of theatre: Irish theatrescapes: new Irish plays, adapted European plays and Irish classics
(The Irish Times, 2016-01-23)
This work, as well as being beautifully illustrated, succeeds as a memoir, an anthology and as an outstanding act of theatre criticism, writes Patrick Lonergan.
Theatre stuff: critical essays on contemporary Irish theatre edited by Eamonn Jordan (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2000)
(2003)
Optimism about contemporary Irish drama seems to have diminished recently. At the 2001 Irish Times/ESB Theatre Awards, a member of the judging panel lamented the scarcity of new Irish plays, stating that he wanted to ...
The theatre of Marie Jones: telling stories from the ground up
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-11-11)
It’s sometimes asserted that Irish women writers are doubly marginalised: first by their nationality and then by their gender. If that statement is true, we might add to it that Marie Jones has been marginalised a third ...
Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett, Gate Theatre
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2010)
It took Samuel Beckett about three weeks to write Krapp’s Last Tape. During that time, the play went through seven
distinct stages which, according to the scholarship, involved a gradual stripping away of sentimentality: ...
Druid Theatre’s Leenane Trilogy on tour: 1996–2001
(Carysfort Press, 2005-09-20)
[No abstract available]
Regionalisation and Globalization in Irish Drama since 1990
(Érudit, 2006-09)
The impact of globalisation on Irish theatre since the early 1990s has been considerable. A study of four recent Irish plays, all produced by "regional" theatre companies, suggests that contemporary Irish theatre is dominated ...
Globalisation and national theatre: two Abbey Theatre productions of Sean o'Casey's The Plough and the Stars
(Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle, 2007)
[No abstract available]
The Last Summer by Declan Hughes: programme note for Gate Theatre, Dublin
(Gate Theatre, 2012)
[No abstract available]
Only an Apple by Tom MacIntyre, Peacock Theatre
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2009)
You have to wonder why Irish dramatists keep writing plays about politicians. In 1969, Brian Friel’s The Mundy Scheme brilliantly satirised the political life of that period, while anticipating much that would follow. Yet ...
All that Fall by Samuel Beckett, Pan Pan Theatre Company
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2011)
The first thing to say about Pan Pan’s performance of Beckett’s 1956 radio play is this: if you’re planning on going to it, please don’t
read this review – it would be a shame to spoil the surprise that awaits you.
And ...