Four Plays By The Charabanc Theatre Company
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Four Plays By The Charabanc Theatre Company
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Author : Marie Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Four Plays By The Charabanc Theatre Company written by Marie Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Drama categories.
The Charabanc Theatre Company played a major role in Northern Ireland's theatrical renaissance during the 1980s. Charabanc was formed by five out-of-work Belfast actresses (Marie Jones, Maureen Macauly, Eleanor Methven, Carol Moore, Brenda Winter) who first collected stories and then collaborated in writing and performing highly original plays for enthusiastic audiences. From 1983 to 1995, the company toured twenty-tour productions extensively throughout Ireland and the world, spreading their own particular brand of exuberant, dark humour. The four plays in this collection - Now You're Talking (1985), Gold in the Streets (1986), The Girls in the Big Picture (1986), and Somewhere Over the Balcony (1987) - represent the creative high point of the company. These entertaining plays show the broad range of the company's work: portraits of urban and rural women; early, mid-, and late twentieth century settings, and various social, religious, historical political, or personal relations. Marie Jones, Eleanor Methven, and Carol Moore were the remaining company principals during the mid-1980s when these four plays were created and performed. Marie Jones became the main writer for Charabanc and after leaving the company in 1990 has continued to write, notably the award-winning Stones in His Pockets. Eleanor Methven and Carol Moore continued on as artistic directors until they disbanded the company in 1995. Eleanor Methven now lives in Dublin and is a sought-after actress for stage and screen, and her first screenplay is in development with Journeyman Films. Carol Moore obtained an MA from Queen's University, Belfast, and still acts for stage and film, but is now primarily an accomplished stage and screen director; in May 2005 she received a NESTA (National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts) Fellowship.
Charabanc Theatre Company
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Author : Claudia Harris
language : en
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Austerity And Irish Women S Writing And Culture 1980 2020
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Author : Deirdre Flynn
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-07-18
Austerity And Irish Women S Writing And Culture 1980 2020 written by Deirdre Flynn and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Austerity and Irish Women’s Writing and Culture, 1980–2020 focuses on the under-represented relationship between austerity and Irish women’s writing across the last four decades. Taking a wide focus across cultural mediums, this collection of essays from leading scholars in Irish studies considers how economic policies impacted on and are represented in Irish women’s writing during critical junctures in recent Irish history. Through an investigation of cultural production north and south of the border, this collection analyses women’s writing using a multimedium approach through four distinct lenses: austerity, feminism, and conflict; arts and austerity; race and austerity; and spaces of austerity. This collection asks two questions: what sort of cultural output does austerity produce? And if the effects of austerity are gendered, then what are the gender-specific responses to financial insecurity, both national and domestic? By investigating how austerity is treated in women’s writing and culture from 1980 to 2020, this collection provides a much-needed analysis of the gendered experience of economic crisis and specifically of Ireland’s consistent relationship with cycles of boom and bust. Thirteen chapters, which focus on fiction, drama, poetry, women’s life writing, and women's cultural contributions, examine these questions. This volume takes the reader on a journey across decades and forms as a means of interrogating the growth of the economic divide between the rich and the poor since the 1980s through the voices of Irish women.
Performing Social Change On The Island Of Ireland
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Author : Ciara L. Murphy
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-05-22
Performing Social Change On The Island Of Ireland written by Ciara L. Murphy and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book examines the relationship between moments of significant social change on the island of Ireland and performance practice during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It examines how moments of significant change influence not only the content of performance practice but also the form and function of theatre production and reception. This book investigates how the Troubles and subsequent Peace Process, Second-Wave Feminism, the Celtic Tiger and neoliberalism, social revolution, and the COVID-19 pandemic impacts the form and function of performance practice across the island of Ireland. Although these forms of theatre and performance making refer to varied and distinct lineages of practice internationally, there are key parallels that compel a study of their inter-relationality in a specific Irish context. This book explores how the performance of Ireland illuminates histories and stories that are on the margins, illuminating the lived realities of everyday life through the presentation of moments of violence, oppression, and trauma as something that is as important as the larger narratives often ascribed to nationhood. This book asks how performance practice engages with and informs moments of major social change on the island of Ireland through the distinct yet intersecting lenses of place, performance form, and social context over the course of almost a century of Irish theatre and performance practice.
Modern Irish Theatre
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Author : Mary Trotter
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2013-05-08
Modern Irish Theatre written by Mary Trotter and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Analysing major Irish dramas and the artists and companies that performed them, Modern Irish Theatre provides an engaging and accessible introduction to twentieth-century Irish theatre: its origins, dominant themes, relationship to politics and culture, and influence on theatre movements around the world. By looking at her subject as a performance rather than a literary phenomenon, Trotter captures how Irish theatre has actively reflected and shaped debates about Irish culture and identity among audiences, artists, and critics for over a century. This text provides the reader with discussion and analysis of: Significant playwrights and companies, from Lady Gregory to Brendan Behan to Marina Carr, and from the Abbey Theatre to the Lyric Theatre to Field Day; Major historical events, including the war for Independence, the Troubles, and the social effects of the Celtic Tiger economy; Critical Methodologies: how postcolonial, diaspora, performance, gender, and cultural theories, among others, shed light on Irish theatre’s political and artistic significance, and how it has addressed specific national concerns. Because of its comprehensiveness and originality, Modern Irish Theatre will be of great interest to students and general readers interested in theatre studies, cultural studies, Irish studies, and political performance.
Women In Irish Drama
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Author : M. Sihra
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2007-03-14
Women In Irish Drama written by M. Sihra and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-14 with Performing Arts categories.
Featuring original essays by leading scholars in the field, this book explores the immense legacy of women playwrights in Irish theatre since the beginning of theTwentieth century. Chapters consider the intersecting contexts of gender, sexuality and the body in order to investigate the broader cultural, political and historical implications of representing 'woman' on the stage. In addition, a number of essays engage with representations of women by a selection of male playwrights in order to re-evaluate familiar contexts and traditions in Irish drama. Features a Foreword by Marina Carr and a useful appendix of Irish women playwrights and their works.
Political Performances
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language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2009
Political Performances written by and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Drama categories.
Preliminary Material -- Mapping Political Performances: A Note on the Structure of the Anthology /E.J. Westlake -- Performance as Sepulchre and Mousetrap: Global Encoding, Local Deciphering /Avraham Oz -- Witnesses in the Public Sphere: Bloody Sunday and the Redefinition of Political Theatre /Paola Botham -- Orality and the Ethics of Ownership in Community-Based Drama /David Grant -- The Théâtre du Soleil's Trajectory from “People's Theatre” to “Citizen Theatre:” Involvement or Renunciation? /Bérénice Hamidi-Kim -- Ways of Unseeing: Glass Wall on the Main Stage /Tal Itzhaki -- To Absent Friends: Ethics in the Field of Auto/Biography /Deirdre Heddon -- Reading the Blacks Through the 1956 Preface: Politics and Betrayal /Carl Lavery -- Barbarians and Babes: A Feminist Critique of a Postcolonial Persians /Sydney Cheek O'Donnell -- Performing Stereotypes at Home and Abroad /Tom Maguire -- The Comeback of Political Drama in Croatia: Or How to Kill a President by Miro Gavran /Sanja Nikčević -- Local Knowledges, Memories, and Community: From Oral History to Performance /David Watt -- Modalities of Israeli Political Theatre: Plonter, ARNA'S Children, and the Ruth Kanner Group /Shimon Levy -- Documenting the Invisible: Dramatizing the Algerian Civil War of the 1990S /Susan C. Haedicke -- The Erotic Politics of Critical Tits: Exhibitionism or Feminist Statement? /Wendy Clupper -- The Güegüence Effect: The National Character and the Nicaraguan Political Process /E.J. Westlake -- Do the Ends Justify the Means? Considering Homeless Lives as Propaganda and Product /Beverly Redman -- The Birabahn/Threlkeld Project: Place, History, Memory, Performance, and Coexistence /Kerrie Schaefer -- Non-Naturalistic Performance in Political Narrative Drama: Methodologies and Languages for Political Performance with Reference to the Rehearsal and Production of E to the Power 3--Education, Education, Education /Lloyd Peters -- Gay Muslims and Salty Meat Pies: The Limits of Performing Community /Sonja Arsham Kuftinec -- About the Contributors.
Theatre Symposium Vol 18
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Author : J K Curry
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2010-10-15
Theatre Symposium Vol 18 written by J K Curry and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-15 with Performing Arts categories.
Stage properties are an often-ignored aspect of theatrical productions, in part because their usage is meant to be seamlessly integrated into the performance instead of a focal point for the audience. The contributors illuminate many aspects of this largely ignored yet crucial part of the theatre.
The Golden Thread
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Author : David Clare
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2021-07-01
The Golden Thread written by David Clare and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-01 with Performing Arts categories.
This two-volume edited collection illuminates the valuable counter-canon of Irish women’s playwriting with forty-two essays written by leading and emerging Irish theatre scholars and practitioners. Covering three hundred years of Irish theatre history from 1716 to 2016, it is the most comprehensive study of plays written by Irish women to date. These short essays provide both a valuable introduction and innovative analysis of key playtexts, bringing renewed attention to scripts and writers that continue to be under-represented in theatre criticism and performance. Volume Two contains chapters focused on plays by sixteen Irish women playwrights produced between 1992 and 2016, highlighting the explosion of new work by contemporary writers. The plays in this volume explore women’s experiences at the intersections of class, sexuality, disability, and ethnicity, pushing at the boundaries of how we define not only Irish theatre, but Irish identity more broadly. CONTRIBUTORS: Nelson Barre, Mary Burke, David Clare, Shonagh Hill, Mária Kurdi, José Lanters, Fiona McDonagh, Dorothy Morrissey, Justine Nakase, Brian Ó Conchubhair, Brenda O'Connell, Shane O'Neill, Graham Price, Siobhán Purcell, Carole Quigley, Sarah Jane Scaife, Melissa Sihra, Clare Wallace
Killing Hercules
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Author : Richard Rowland
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-08
Killing Hercules written by Richard Rowland and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-08 with History categories.
This book offers an entirely new reception history of the myth of Hercules and his wife/killer Deianira. The book poses, and attempts to answer, two important and related questions. First, why have artists across two millennia felt compelled to revisit this particular myth to express anxieties about violence at both a global and domestic level? Secondly, from the moment that Sophocles disrupted a myth about the definitive exemplar of masculinity and martial prowess and turned it into a story about domestic abuse, through to a 2014 production of Handel’s Hercules that was set in the context of the ‘war on terror’, the reception history of this myth has been one of discontinuity and conflict; how and why does each culture reinvent this narrative to address its own concerns and discontents, and how does each generation speak to, qualify or annihilate the certainties of its predecessors in order to understand, contain or exonerate the aggression with which their governors – of state and of the household – so often enforce their authority, and the violence to which their nations, and their homes, are perennially vulnerable?
