Browsing University of Galway Theses by Author "Lonergan, Patrick"
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Acting is believing: ritual, memory, and performance in the plays of Enda Walsh
Barre, Nelson (2016-10-17)In this research, I examine the relationship between ritual, memory, and performance and contemporary theatrical creation methods, specifically with reference to the works of Enda Walsh. I use Walsh's plays as a case study ... -
Performing oral history as verbatim theatre: A practice-led investigation
Ní Dhubháin, Marina (NUI Galway, 2021-05-28)This dissertation is predicated on the search for fresh perspectives on an ethical and progressive verbatim theatre practice through the application of oral history theory and method. The use of personal testimony is central ... -
A quiet cultural revolution: The amateur theatre movement in Ireland, 1952-1980
O'Gorman, Finian (NUI Galway, 2019-12-19)This dissertation outlines the origins, contours, and impact of the amateur theatre movement in Ireland from the foundation of the All-Ireland and Ulster Drama Festivals in 1953 to the establishment of Field Day Theatre ... -
Re-place: performative landscapes as conceptual ecological environments
FitzGerald, Lisa (2016-09-27)This dissertation aims to integrate Irish theatre history into a wider discourse of the environmental humanities. Combining material ecocritical thinking and theories of space and place, this thesis contends firstly, that ... -
Shakespeare, gender, and contemporary Ireland: performing and recreating national identities
McHugh, Emer (NUI Galway, 2019-02-11)This dissertation explores the performance of Shakespeare by Irish theatre practitioners in Ireland and England at a time of significant biopolitical, social, and legislative change (2014-2018), and as such, approaches ... -
Staging food: An autoethnographic approach to understanding food in theatre and performance
McMahon, Jp (NUI Galway, 2022-06-28)This Practice-as-Research (PaR) thesis examines the staging of food through postdramatic playwriting. Using an autoethnographic methodology, it investigates how this staging affects those involved in the production (from ... -
Theatre and Space: Druid's Productions of Tom Murphy's Plays, 1984-1987
Troupe, Shelley (2011-09-30)This study analyses the relationship between the theatre company Druid and Irish playwright Tom Murphy to discern how Druid successfully toured Murphy's plays abroad despite the perception that his work is viewed as popular ... -
W. B. Yeats the dramaturge: Space dramaturgy in Four Plays for Dancers - the investigations of a research-practitioner
Szuts, Melinda (NUI Galway, 2020-12-10)The research investigates the dramaturgical composition of William Butler Yeats’s four dance plays (At the Hawk’s Well, The Dreaming of the Bones, The Only Jealousy of Emer, Calvary), published in the collection Four Plays ...