The Author: Rhona Trench holds a doctorate in Contemporary Irish Theatre from Queen’s University Belfast. She is Programme Chair and teaches on the B.A. in Performing Arts (Hons) at IT Sligo. She was the Symposium Convenor for the Irish Society for Theatre Research Conference 2009. She is currently writing on the practice of the Blue Raincoat Theatre Company, Sligo.

• Contents: Unnatural Blood - The Early Plays, Ullaloo and Low in the Dark, the foundations of abjection, also discussed in Woman and Scarecrow – Coagulated Blood, Congealed Blood, Mixed Blood - Abjection and the role of the mother, Cultural memory and history in the context of Carr’s trilogy – The One Blood - Incest – Streaked Blood - Destructive genealogy – Sacrificial Blood - Ariel, The Cordelia Dream - crossings internalised in corporeal, psychic and abject ways. Marble - managing loss, melancholic boundaries of negotiation.

The Author: Rhona Trench holds a doctorate in Contemporary Irish Theatre from Queen’s University Belfast. She is Programme Chair and teaches on the B.A. in Performing Arts (Hons) at IT Sligo. She was the Symposium Convenor for the Irish Society for Theatre Research Conference 2009. She is currently writing on the practice of the Blue Raincoat Theatre Company, Sligo.

• Contents: Unnatural Blood - The Early Plays, Ullaloo and Low in the Dark, the foundations of abjection, also discussed in Woman and Scarecrow – Coagulated Blood, Congealed Blood, Mixed Blood - Abjection and the role of the mother, Cultural memory and history in the context of Carr’s trilogy – The One Blood - Incest – Streaked Blood - Destructive genealogy – Sacrificial Blood - Ariel, The Cordelia Dream - crossings internalised in corporeal, psychic and abject ways. Marble - managing loss, melancholic boundaries of negotiation.

The Author: Rhona Trench holds a doctorate in Contemporary Irish Theatre from Queen’s University Belfast. She is Programme Chair and teaches on the B.A. in Performing Arts (Hons) at IT Sligo. She was the Symposium Convenor for the Irish Society for Theatre Research Conference 2009. She is currently writing on the practice of the Blue Raincoat Theatre Company, Sligo.

• Contents: Unnatural Blood - The Early Plays, Ullaloo and Low in the Dark, the foundations of abjection, also discussed in Woman and Scarecrow – Coagulated Blood, Congealed Blood, Mixed Blood - Abjection and the role of the mother, Cultural memory and history in the context of Carr’s trilogy – The One Blood - Incest – Streaked Blood - Destructive genealogy – Sacrificial Blood - Ariel, The Cordelia Dream - crossings internalised in corporeal, psychic and abject ways. Marble - managing loss, melancholic boundaries of negotiation.