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Reviewing
(Routledge, 2015-02-12)
This article explores the practice of reviewing, using the methodologies associated with theatre criticism to consider how best to manage the academic practice of reviewing.
"I Do Repent and Yet I Do Despair": Beckettian and Faustian allusions in Conor McPherson's the Seafarer and Mark O'Rowe's Terminus
(Routledge, 2012)
In a press interview in April 2007, Conor McPherson correctly anticipated the
imminent conclusion of the ‘Celtic Tiger’ period – the decade-long economic
boom that had transformed Ireland into one of the world’s richest ...
Staging the new Irish : interculturalism and the future of the post-Celtic Tiger Irish theatre
(University of Toronto Press, 2011)
In this article, I argue that the work of minority-ethnic artists reframes the parameters of Irish national belonging and tests the limits of “interculturalism” as official discourse in the post–Celtic Tiger nation. I ...
'Albert Nobbs', Ladies and Gentlemen, and Quare Irish Female Erotohistories
(Edinburgh University Press, 2013-05)
This essay models an approach to quare Irish female erotohistoriography through analyzing George Moore's 1918 novella 'Albert Nobbs' (later adapted as The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs by French feminist playwright Simone ...
Review of Stewart Parker: A Life by Marilynne Richtarik
(Modern Humanities Research Association, 2015-10)
Stewart Parker is ofen spoken of as Ireland’s most unjustly neglected dramatist.
His first play, Spokesong, was an unexpected hit at the Dublin Teatre Festival in
1975; his last play, Pentecost (1987), is one of the great ...
Historical duty, palimpsestic time, and migration in the Decade of Centenaries
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-11-23)
This article analyses Sonya Kelly’s How to Keep an Alien (Dublin Tiger Fringe, 2014) and ANU Production’s Vardo (Dublin Theatre Festival, 2014) in relationship to the performative backdrop of the Irish Decade of Centenaries ...
“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)
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The Field by John B. Keane, Olympia Theatre
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2011)
Irish attitudes towards John B. Keane have changed a lot during the last ten years – due largely to Garry Hynes’
production of four of his plays during that period. Keane has always been popular, but he was also seen by ...
Queer notions: new plays and performances from Ireland by Fintan Walsh
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2011-01-30)
Fintan Walsh’s new anthology begins with a line that seems in danger of subverting the rest of the book. “There is strength
in numbers, so they say,” writes Frank McGuinness in his foreword – before adding “I’ve never ...
The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh, Young Vic Theatre
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2010)
When Martin McDonagh’s Leenane plays first appeared in Ireland, they seemed exciting for many reasons: their
delinquent humour, their rootedness in (but distance from) the Irish dramatic tradition, their wilfully ...