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Author:   Anne Etienne ,  Thierry Dubost
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2017
Weight:   5.157kg
ISBN:  

9783319597096

ISBN 10:   3319597094
Pages:   301
Publication Date:   08 November 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword; Thomas Kilroy.- 1. Introduction; Anne Etienne and Thierry Dubost.- 2. Innovation meets Evocation: Tom Mac Intyre’s plays at the Peacock Theatre; Marie Kelly.- 3. From Dementia to Utopia: Tragedy and Transcendence in Frank McGuinness’ The Hanging Gardens; Matthieu Kolb.- 4. Women and Scarecrows: Marina Carr’s Stage Bodies; Mary Noonan.- 5. McDonagh’s True, Lonesome West; Maria Isabel Seguro.- 6. The physical and verbal theatre of Michael West; Nicholas Grene.- 7. A Dark Rosebud on the Irish Stage: Ailís Ní Ríain’s Tallest Man in the World; Thierry Dubost.- 8. Death of A Playwright; Geoff Gould.- 9. Looking back and forward on sound design: Irish theatre transformed; Cormac O'Connor.- 10. Lightning in a Bottle: the BrokenCrow Experiment; Ronan FitzGibbon.- 11. Interview with Bríd Ó Gallchoir; Anne Etienne and Thierry Dubost.- 12. Interview with Pat Kinevane; Anne Etienne.- 13. Interview with Mark O’Rowe; Thierry Dubost and Anne Etienne.- 14. Enda Walsh, in conversation with Ger FitzGibbon.- 15. Slump and Punk in Ray Scannell’s Losing Steam: Envisioning Corcadorca; Anne Etienne.- 16. Through A Glass, Darkly: Priests on the Contemporary Irish Stage; Virginie Roche-Tiengo.- 17. Populating the Irish Stage with (Dis)Abled Bodies: Sanctuary by Christian O’Reilly and the Blue Teapot Company; Katarzyna Ojrzyńska.- 18. Queering the Irish Stage: Shame, Sexuality, and the Politics of Testimonial; Cormac O'Brien.- 19. A Gendered Absence: Feminist theatre, Glasshouse Productions, and the #WTF movement; Patricia O’Beirne.

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Anne Etienne is Lecturer in Modern Drama at University College Cork, Ireland. She has published widely on theatre censorship in twentieth-century England, and is the main author of Theatre Censorship: from Walpole to Wilson (2007). She is currently expanding her work on Arnold Wesker. Her research in contemporary Irish theatre is devoted to Corcadorca Theatre Company. Thierry Dubost is Professor of Literatures in English at the University of Caen Basse-Normandie, France. He is the author of Struggle, Defeat or Rebirth: Eugene O’Neill’s Vision of Humanity (1997) and The Plays of Thomas Kilroy (2007). He has co-edited a number of volumes on Irish drama and culture.

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