The Plays Of Thomas Kilroy
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The Plays Of Thomas Kilroy
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Author : Thierry Dubost
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-03-14
The Plays Of Thomas Kilroy written by Thierry Dubost and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Irish Times called Thomas Kilroy "one of the most significant playwrights of modern Ireland", while The Sunday Times has described him as "one of the outstanding living Irish playwrights and, perhaps, the most complete". The winner of numerous honors including a special tribute from the Irish Theatre Awards in 2003, he has written fourteen plays. This appraisal of the works of Thomas Kilroy focuses on the common themes and methodology of his plays, including an unusual alliance between serious theatrical complexity and varied but demanding forms of comedy. A separate chapter is devoted to each play with the exception of The Death and Resurrection of Mr. Roche and The MacAdam Travelling Theatre, whose complementary themes are discussed together. Reflecting on the essence of theatre, Kilroy's works combine meditations on humanity with references to Irish history, generally using historical reality as a dramatic starting point. Plays discussed include Kilroy originals such as Talbot's Box, The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde and Blake as well as adaptations of well-known works such as The Seagull, Six Characters in Search of an Author, and Henry. Interviews with stage directors (L. Parker, M. Stafford-Clark, P. Mason, A.S. Paul) and the playwright himself contribute to this in-depth analysis of Kilroy's dramatic art. Photographs of staged plays and a list of premieres of Kilroy's works (plays and adaptations) are also included.
Thomas Kilroy The Quests Made And The Visions Formed In Three Plays Talbot S Box Double Cross And The Secret Fall Of Contance Wilde
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Author : Philomena Dunne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Thomas Kilroy The Quests Made And The Visions Formed In Three Plays Talbot S Box Double Cross And The Secret Fall Of Contance Wilde written by Philomena Dunne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Theater categories.
The Theatre Of Thomas Kilroy
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Author : José Lanters
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
The Theatre Of Thomas Kilroy written by José Lanters and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Electronic books categories.
Thomas Kilroy, Ireland's leading intellectual playwright, has, over the span of a fifty-year career, consistently resisted fixed categories and boundaries in both his stagecraft and the themes of his plays. In a close consideration of ten of his major works for the stage, and drawing extensively on archival materials, Lanters explores how Kilroy has challenged his audiences by confronting them with subject matter often perceived disturbing, controversial, even taboo within an Irish context, including homophobia, misogyny, marital unhappiness, mental illness, nationalist extremism, and religious fanaticism. Frequently drawing on styles rarely seen on the Irish stage, ranging from Artaud's 'theatre of cruelty' to Japanese Kabuki theatre, Kilroy's highly imaginative, thought-provoking, and challenging plays have alerted audiences to the complexity and inconstancy of the realities around them as well as the intricacies of the human psyche. Based on the reoccurrence of certain motifs in Kilroy's oeuvre, the present study divides his ten plays into three groups, characterised in broadly thematic terms. In The O'Neill (1969), Double Cross (1986), and The Madame MacAdam Travelling Theatre (1991), Kilroy considers the politics of identity and questions extreme forms of nationalism, in Northern Ireland, the Republic, and beyond. The Death and Resurrection of Mr Roche (1968), Tea and Sex and Shakespeare (1976), The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde (1997), and Christ, Deliver Us! (2010) reveal Kilroy's ongoing interest in the fluid nature of gender and sexuality, and the tragedies that ensue when authoritarian figures or institutions seek to regulate and constrain their expression. The focus in Talbot's Box (1977), The Shape of Metal (2003), and Blake (2011) is on the single-minded, self-involved nature of great artists and mystics, whose unique visionary gifts render them at times 'monstrous' to the people around them, and to themselves.
The Big Chapel
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Author : Thomas Kilroy
language : en
Publisher: Revival
Release Date : 2009
The Big Chapel written by Thomas Kilroy and has been published by Revival this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Fiction categories.
Nominated for the Booker Prize upon its release and winner of several awards, The Big Chapel is one of the great Irish novels. Part of the Liberties Irish Classics series, this novel depicts life in an Ireland subject to clerical power, an image which still resonates today. Basing his work upon a notorious clerical scandal of Victorian Ireland, Thomas Kilroy has written an anatomy of religious violence that remains relevant. In scenes that range from the private and lyrical to the panorama of a whole community in convulsion, he draws upon a deep knowledge of the history and folklore of nineteenth-century Ireland.
The Madame Macadam Travelling Theatre
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Author : Thomas Kilroy
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Release Date : 1991
The Madame Macadam Travelling Theatre written by Thomas Kilroy and has been published by Heinemann Educational Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Drama categories.
The Madame MacAdam Travelling Theatre is a small English touring company of players. It arrives in a provincial Irish town, sometime in the early 1940s during the turmoil of World War II. This play explores what happens when players and townspeople interact.
Over The Backyard Wall
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Author : Thomas Kilroy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Over The Backyard Wall written by Thomas Kilroy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Dramatists, Irish categories.
Talbot S Box
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Author : Thomas Kilroy
language : en
Publisher: Gallery Books
Release Date : 1997
Talbot S Box written by Thomas Kilroy and has been published by Gallery Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Drama categories.
Catholic ascetic Matt Talbot, the "workers' saint" (1856-1925), provokes Kilroy's ingenious examination of the idea of sanctity in the modern world. The very incorporation of penance and spiritual search, his conversion from alcoholism to prayer, fasting and self-mortification is sketched in the textured resonances of the idiom of the Dublin streets and in the soaring lyrical versions of the final visions -- all while Talbot's coffin remains on stage. in the words of the playwright, Talbot's Box is "a play about aloneness, its cost to the person, and the kind of courage required to sustain it.
Christ Deliver Us
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Author : Thomas Kilroy
language : en
Publisher: Gallery Books
Release Date : 2010
Christ Deliver Us written by Thomas Kilroy and has been published by Gallery Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Catholic youth categories.
Published to coincide with the Abbey Theatre, Dublin's, world premiere, a searing indictment of the extortionate price but on childhood by church and state.
Perspectives On Contemporary Irish Theatre
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Author : Anne Etienne
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-10-20
Perspectives On Contemporary Irish Theatre written by Anne Etienne and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-20 with Performing Arts categories.
This book addresses the notion posed by Thomas Kilroy in his definition of a playwright’s creative process: ‘We write plays, I feel, in order to populate the stage’. It gathers eclectic reflections on contemporary Irish theatre from both Irish theatre practitioners and international academics. The eighteen contributions offer innovative perspectives on Irish theatre since the early 1990s up to the present, testifying to the development of themes explored by emerging and established playwrights as well as to the (r)evolutions in practices and approaches to the stage that have taken place in the last thirty years. This cross-disciplinary collection devotes as much attention to contextual questions and approaches to the stage in practice as it does to the play text in its traditional and revised forms. The essays and interviews encourage dialectic exchange between analytical studies on contemporary Irish theatre and contributions by theatre practitioners.
Oscar Wilde And Contemporary Irish Drama
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Author : Graham Price
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-10-23
Oscar Wilde And Contemporary Irish Drama written by Graham Price and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-23 with Performing Arts categories.
This book is about the Wildean aesthetic in contemporary Irish drama. Through elucidating a discernible Wildean strand in the plays of Brian Friel, Tom Murphy, Thomas Kilroy, Marina Carr and Frank McGuinness, it demonstrates that Oscar Wilde's importance to Ireland's theatrical canon is equal to that of W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge and Samuel Beckett. The study examines key areas of the Wildean aesthetic: his aestheticizing of experience via language and self-conscious performance; the notion of the dandy in Wildean texts and how such a figure is engaged with in today's dramas; and how his contribution to the concept of a ‘verbal theatre’ has influenced his dramatic successors. It is of particular pertinence to academics and postgraduate students in the fields of Irish drama and Irish literature, and for those interested in the work of Oscar Wilde, Brian Friel, Tom Murphy, Thomas Kilroy, Marina Carr and Frank McGuinness. okokpoj