Devised performance in Irish theatre : histories and contemporary practice / edited by Siobhán O'Gorman and Charlotte McIvor.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Dublin, Ireland : Carysfort Press, 2015.
  • ©2015
Description
xi, 288 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm

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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Devising Ireland: genealogies and contestations / Charlotte McIvor and Siobhán O'Gorman
    • Section one: Devising as a collaborative art
    • Spectres of Connolly: The non-stop Connolly show reconsidered / Michael Jaros
    • A portrait of the citizen as artist: community arts, devising and contemporary Irish theatre practice / Charlotte McIvor
    • "Whose art is is anyway?" A critical and historical analysis of Upstate Theatre Project / Irene White
    • Interview with Una McKevitt (Una McKevitt Productions) / Jesse Weaver
    • A song about survival: Talking Shop Ensemble responds to the Irish debt crisis / Laura Farrell-Wortman
    • Section two: Formal politics
    • A theatre of truth? Negotiating place, politics and policy in the Dublin Fringe Festival / Miriam Haughton
    • Mapping contemporary European theatre(s): reconsidering notions of devised and post-dramatic theatres / Noelia Ruiz
    • An interview with Gavin Quinn (Pan Pan Theatre) / Noelia Ruiz
    • Section Three: Regional practices
    • Staging Blue Raincoat's production of WB Yeats's The cat and the moon (2009) and At the Hawk's Well (2010) / Rhona Trench
    • Repeating, revising and devising: communities in contemporary Galway theatre / Siobhán O'Gorman
    • Interview with Máiréad Ní Chronin (Moonfish Theatre) / Charlotte McIvor
    • Section four: Northern approaches
    • Reawakening Belfast's streets: tourism and memory in site-specific Northern Irish theatre / Eleanor Owicki
    • Politics, pride, and performance: theatreofplucK's devised queer dramaturgies in Northern Ireland / Caitriona Mary Reilly
    • Interview with Will Chamberlain (Belfast Community Circus) /Siobhán O'Gorman.
    Other title(s)
    Devised performance in Irish theater
    ISBN
    • 9781909325784 ((pbk.))
    • 1909325783 ((pbk.))
    • 9781909325852
    • 1909325856
    LCCN
    2014482598
    OCLC
    922021844
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