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‘Now for Our Irish Wars’ – Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman and the Irish Dramatic Canon
(Routledge, 2020-11-22)
This article explores the Irish features of Jez Butterworth’s _The Ferryman_, focussing on his
use of overfamiliar Irish tropes as well as his intertextual allusions to writers such as Brian
Friel, WB Yeats, and Seamus ...
‘A Twisted, Looping Form’ Staging dark ecologies in Ella Hickson’s Oil
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2020-06-01)
In Dark Ecology (2016), Timothy Morton argues that one of the challenges presented by the impact of human activity upon the environment is that [w]e are faced with the task of thinking at temporal and spatial scales that ...
‘It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home …’: Beckett as national performance
(Intellect, 2020-12-01)
This article explores how nations such as Ireland interact with each other ‐ and seek to understand themselves ‐ by appropriating theatre-makers and other artists, using them to perform versions of that nation to the outside ...