Browsing University of Galway Theses by Subject "Theatre"
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Acting is believing: ritual, memory, and performance in the plays of Enda Walsh
(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 ... -
Flashes of modernity: stage design at the Abbey Theatre, 1902-1966
(NUI Galway, 2018-08-31)Responding to Guy Julier’s call for a “knowing practice” of design studies, this doctoral thesis reveals Ireland’s negotiation with modernity through stage design. I use historian T.J. Clark’s definition of modernity as ... -
From hybrid bodies to haunted bodies: Mobile technologies, affect and theatre
(2017-09-22)Mobile digital technologies - from smartphones, to wearables, to pervasive technologies - are transforming the ways in which we experience our own bodies, and the ways in which we experience the world through our bodies. ... -
Larping audiences into theatre: Reflective affective structures of participatory performance
(NUI Galway, 2020-05-07)This thesis asks what strategies and structures of larp-led participatory performance encourage participants to reflect on their affective embeddedness within evolving differential structures of becoming as represented ... -
Negotiating Genders from the Page to the Stage: Marina Carr and Suzan-Lori Parks
(2011-09-30)'Negotiating Genders from the Page to the Stage: Marina Carr and Suzan-Lori Parks' explores how two female playwrights, from different cultures and backgrounds, challenge oppressive traditions. It offers the first major ... -
Outside the canon: theatre, social change, and archival memory
(NUI Galway, 2018-09-26)This dissertation examines the intersection of theatre and society of post-Emergency Ireland through a methodological assessment of social, performative and archival memory. It identifies a group of new Irish plays and ... -
Performing scalar interculturalism: Race and identity in contemporary Irish performance
(NUI Galway, 2019-05-07)This dissertation is an interdisciplinary analysis of race and identity in contemporary Irish performance. Using the Irish case study and looking at theatre, sport and dance, it develops an intersectional framework of ... -
Re-directing George Bernard Shaw: Exploring the staging of Shaw's play-texts for contemporary audiences through practice as research
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-08)At the convergence of performance studies and Shavian studies, this thesis explores the staging of Shaw’s play-texts for contemporary audiences through Practice as Research (PaR). This document charts and analyses three ... -
Staging food: An autoethnographic approach to understanding food in theatre and performance
(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 ...