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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: ...
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 ...
Shakespeare and the Irish Writer edited by Janet Clare and Stephen O Neill
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2010)
Shakespeare, wrote Ben Jonson, was both the “soul of the age” and “for all time”. His work, that is, encapsulated the life of
his society – but it also transcended space and time, acquiring universal importance. That ...