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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 ...
The Call by Tara Maria Lovett, Peri-Talking at The Crypt
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2002)
Arriving to watch Tara Maria Lovett’s The Call, we realise that we have entered a human body. The room pulses with red lighting as we take our seats around a ribcage, a pile of stones at its centre representing a heart. ...
The Match Box by Frank McGuinness: programme note for Galway International Arts Festival
(Galway International Arts Festival, 2015)
[No abstract available]
Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels and anti-Irish prejudice
(Center for Irish Studies at the University of St. Thomas, 2007)
It is by now taken as axiomatic that representations of Irish characters in Victorian literature were generally negative. However, as Roy Foster shows, they were not universally so; we find one example of a positive treatment ...
The New Electric Ballroom by Enda Walsh, Druid Theatre, Galway
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2008)
[No abstract available]
‘Great Joys Were My Share Always’: Ibsenite echoes in Synge’s Deirdre of the Sorrows
(International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) Japan, 2017)
[No abstract available]
'Perform, or Else!'
(ISTR Irish Society for Theatre Research, 2014)
This latest issue of Irish Theatre International bridges the discourses of theatre practice and research with that of performance studies, and also with the ways in which social, economic, political and cultural activities ...
‘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 ...