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Gate Theatre, Dublin
Inspiration and Craft
Av David Clare, Des Lally m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
631 kr
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The Gate Theatre is one of Ireland’s major theatres. It has produced important new plays by such figures as Brian Friel, Conor McPherson, and Denis Johnston – while also premiering significant works by other writers, including unjustly neglected women dramatists such as Mary Manning, Christine …
Beethoven’s Irish Songs Revisited
Texts Chosen by Tomás Ó Súilleabháin Edited by Margaret O’Sullivan Farrell
Av Tomás Ó Súilleabháin, Margaret O'Sullivan Farrell
Häftad, 2018
631 kr
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Beethoven’s seventy-two settings of traditional Irish airs constitute his most prolific output in any genre. The arrangements were commissioned in the early nineteenth century by the Scottish editor and publisher, George Thomson, who sent airs, but no texts, to Beethoven. Poetry, mostly by less …
Life Remembered
A Memoir of Anew McMaster
Häftad, 2018
408 kr
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«Perhaps the greatest actor-manager of his time», wrote the distinguished playwright Harold Pinter, whose first job in the theatre was with Anew McMaster’s classical theatre company and whose little book, called Mac, Pinter published as a tribute to him after his death. For over thirty years «Mac», …
Death and Marriage
Greek and Roman Drama
Av Brian Arkins
Häftad, 2018
289 kr
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This book aims to provide a comprehensive, but succinct analysis of the tragedies and comedies written by Greek and Roman dramatists. The book is comprehensive in the ways it deals not just with Greek tragedy of the fifth century BCE, but also with Seneca’s tragedies of the first century CE. The …
Breaking Boundaries
An Anthology of Original Plays from The Focus Theatre
Häftad, 2019
513 kr
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Almost from the beginning, since 1970, new plays became part of the Focus’s repertory. Starting with Peter Terson’s Mooney and His Caravan, and Declan Burke-Kennedy’s The Trespasser in 1973, new plays continued to be produced and some, such as actor-playwright Ena May (Out of the Beehive 1987; …
Ibsen and Chekov on the Irish Stage
Av Ros Dixon, Irina Ruppo Malone
Häftad, 2019
425 kr
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Ibsen and Chekhov on the Irish Stage presents articles on the theories of translation and adaptation, new insights on the work of Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness, Thomas Kilroy, and Tom Murphy, historical analyses of theatrical productions during the Irish Revival, interviews with contemporary …
Sullied Magnificence
The Theatre of Mark O’Rowe
Av Sarah Keating, Emma Creedon
Häftad, 2018
456 kr
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Sullied Magnificence: The Theatre of Mark O’Rowe is a collection of essays that combines the voices of Mark O’Rowe’s collaborators and critics with analysis by leading academics. It examines the role of the actor and director in monologue theatre. It questions the use of violence in O’Rowe’s films …
Devised Performance in Irish Theatre
Histories and Contemporary Practice
Av Siobhán O'Gorman, Charlotte McIvor
Häftad, 2018
442 kr
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Devised Performance in Irish Theatre: Histories and Contemporary Practice is the first collection to focus exclusively on devised theatre throughout the island of Ireland by bringing together a range of perspectives from both academics and practitioners. It situates the histories and contemporary …
Radical Contemporary Theatre Practices By Women In Ireland
Av Miriam Haughton, Mária Kurdi
Häftad, 2018
408 kr
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A useful and provocative book that collects the diverse and related practices of theatre makers and theatre professionals deserving of greater attention from artists, teachers and scholars. (Willie White, Director of Dublin Theatre Festival and President of IETM)Radical Contemporary Theatre …
Theatre of Marie Jones
Telling stories from the ground up
Av Eugene McNulty, Tom Maguire
Häftad, 2018
421 kr
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Marie Jones is one of the most prolific and popular writers working in Northern Irish theatre today. Her work has achieved local relevance and international recognition. In the course of a remarkable career now spanning five decades, Jones has been an actor, playwright, and screenwriter; she also …
Blue Raincoat Theatre Company
Av Rhona Trench
Häftad, 2019
459 kr
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Since its foundation in 1991, Blue Raincoat Theatre Company is Ireland's only full-time venue-based professional theatre ensemble and has become renowned for its movement, visual and aural proficiencies and precision. This book explores those signatures from a number of vantage points, conveying …
Across the Boundaries
Talking about Thomas Kilroy
Av Guy Woodward
Häftad, 2019
400 kr
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Thomas Kilroy’s long and distinguished career is celebrated in this volume by new essays, panel discussions and an interview, reconsidering the work of one of Ireland’s most intellectually ambitious and technically imaginative playwrights. Contributors are drawn from both the academic and …
For the Sake of Sanity
Doing things with humour in Irish performance
Av Eric Weitz
Häftad, 2019
388 kr
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Humour claims no ideological affiliation – its workings merit inspection in any and every individual case, in light of the who, what, where and when of a joke, including the manner of performance, the socio-cultural context, the dynamic amongst participants, and who knows how many other factors …
Stanislavski in Ireland
Focus at Fifty
Av Brian McAvera, Steven Dedalus Burch
Häftad, 2019
388 kr
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Stanislavski in Ireland: Focus at Fifty is an insight into Ireland’s only arthouse theatre from the people who were there. Through interviews, articles, short memoirs and photographs, the book tracks the theatre from its inception, detailing the period under its founder Deirdre O’Connell and then …
Theatre of Conor McPherson
«Right beside the Beyond»
Av Lilian Chambers, Eamonn Jordan
Häftad, 2019
459 kr
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Multiple productions and the international successes of plays like The Weir have led to Conor McPherson being regarded by many as one of the finest writers of his generation. McPherson has also been hugely prolific as a theatre director, as a screenwriter and film director, garnering many awards in …
Irish Drama
Local and Global Perspectives
Av Nicholas Grene, Patrick Lonergan
Häftad, 2019
360 kr
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Since the late 1970s there has been a marked internationalization of Irish drama, with individual plays, playwrights, and theatrical companies establishing newly global reputations. This book reflects upon these developments, drawing together leading scholars and playwrights to consider the …
What Shakespeare Stole From Rome
Av Brian Arkins
Häftad, 2018
456 kr
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What Shakespeare Stole From Rome analyses the multiple ways Shakespeare used material from Roman history and Latin poetry in his plays and poems. Three important tragedies deal with the history of the Roman Republic: Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra. From the tragedies of Seneca, …
Synge and His Influences
Centenary Essays from the Synge Summer School
Häftad, 2019
400 kr
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The year 2009 was the centenary of the death of John Millington Synge, one of the world’s great dramatists. To mark the occasion, this book gathers essays by leading scholars of Irish drama, aiming to explore the writers and movements that shaped Synge, and to consider his enduring legacies. Essays …
Because We Are Poor
Irish Theatre in the 1990s
Häftad, 2019
445 kr
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Throughout the twentieth century, Irish theatre was fully engaged with the pressing questions of independence - how to achieve it, and how the gap between what was desired and what was settled for might be addressed.In Because We Are Poor, Victor Merriman reads Ireland's postcoloniality as a state …
Buffoonery and Easy Sentiment
Popular Irish plays in the decade prior to the opening of the Abbey Theatre
Häftad, 2019
388 kr
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In this fascinating reappraisal of the non-literary drama of the late 19th - early 20th century, Christopher Fitz-Simon discloses a unique world of plays, players and producers in metropolitan theatres in Ireland and other countries where Ireland was viewed as a source of extraordinary topics at …
Irish Appropriation of Greek Tragedy
Av Brian Arkins
Häftad, 2020
271 kr
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This book presents an analysis of more than 30 plays written by Irish dramatists and poets that are based on the tragedies of Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. These plays proceed from the time of Yeats and Synge through MacNeice and the Longfords on to many of today’s leading writers. A special …
Deviant Acts
Essays on Queer Performance
Av David Cregan
Häftad, 2019
388 kr
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This book contains an exciting collection of essays focusing on a variety of alternative performances happening in contemporary Ireland. While it highlights the particular representations of gay and lesbian identity it also brings to light how diversity has always been part of Irish culture and is, …
Modern Death
The End of Civilization
Häftad, 2020
212 kr
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Modern Death is written in the form of a symposium, in which a government agency brings together a group of experts to discuss a strategy for dealing with an ageing population.The speakers take up the thread of the ongoing debates about care for the aged and about euthanasia. In dark satirical mode …
Shifting Scenes
Irish theatre-going 1955-1985
Av Nicholas Grene, Chris Morash
Häftad, 2020
190 kr
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From the late 1940s, until shortly before his death in 2007, John Devitt was one of Dublin's most avid and discerning theatre-goers. For John, attending the theatre was something more than an evening out: it was a passion, a commitment, almost a vocation. A born raconteur, John could talk about …
Ireland on Stage
Beckett and After
Av Hiroko Mikami, Minako Okamuro m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
393 kr
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Ireland on Stage: Beckett and After, a collection of ten essays on contemporary Irish theatre, focuses primarily on Irish playwrights and their works, both in text and on the stage, in the latter half of the twentieth century. It is symbolic that most of the editorial work for this book was carried …
Echoes Down the Corridor
Irish Theatre - Past, Present and Future
Av Patrick Lonergan, Riana O'Dwyer
Häftad, 2019
388 kr
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This collection of fourteen new essays explores Irish theatre from exciting new perspectives. How has Irish theatre been received internationally – and, as the country becomes more multicultural, how will international theatre influence the development of drama in Ireland? As Ireland changes, how …
Edna O'Brien
'New Critical Perspectives'
Av Maureen O'Connor, Kathryn Laing m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
437 kr
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The essays collected in Edna O’Brien: New Critical Perspectives illustrate the range, complexity and interest of O’Brien as a fiction writer and dramatist. Together they contribute to a broader appreciation of her work and to an evolution of new critical approaches, as well as igniting greater …
George Fitzmaurice: 'Wild in his Own Way'
Biography of an Abbey Playwright
Häftad, 2021
370 kr
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This biography delves into Fitzmaurice's creative identity by reconstructing the regional roots of his themes, characters and dialect.
