Drama Theatre and Performance (Scholarly Articles)
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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 ... -
‘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 ... -
‘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 ... -
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 ... -
‘Great Joys Were My Share Always’: Ibsenite echoes in Synge’s Deirdre of the Sorrows
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'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 ... -
Digging around in the past for a glimpse of the future
(The Irish Times, 2013-04-22)[No abstract available] -
Home is where the heart is - and the drama too
(The Irish Times, 2015-01-03)[No abstract available] -
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. -
Bolger abandons tradition to chronicle tower life in all its darkness and beauty: BOOK OF THE DAY
(The Irish Times, 2010-05-28)[No abstract available] -
Speaking Out: The Tricyle Theatre's Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2005)[No abstract available] -
“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)[No abstract available] -
The Last Summer by Declan Hughes: programme note for Gate Theatre, Dublin
(Gate Theatre, 2012)[No abstract available] -
Re-imagining Shakespeare: A tender thing directed by Selina Cartmell: programme note for Siren Productions
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The Match Box by Frank McGuinness: programme note for Galway International Arts Festival
(Galway International Arts Festival, 2015)[No abstract available] -
The New Electric Ballroom by Enda Walsh, Druid Theatre, Galway
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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 ...