Irish Theatre in Transition: From the Late Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction: The Irish Theatre in Transition....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
The Irish Theatre: The First Hundred Years, 1897–1997....Pages 13-30
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
Black Hole Experiences: Moochers, Smoochers, Dig Outs and the Parables and Spasms of Time in Conor McPherson’s The Night Alive ....Pages 33-53
Queer Creatures, Queer Place: Otherness and Normativity in Irish Drama from Synge to Friel....Pages 54-67
Troubled Relations of Gender and Generation in Celtic Tiger Drama: Stella Feehily’s Duck and O Go My Man ....Pages 68-81
‘The Politics of Aging’: Frank McGuinness’s The Hanging Gardens ....Pages 82-96
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
Theatricality and Self-Reflexivity: The Play-within-the-Play in Select Contemporary Irish Plays....Pages 99-121
When the Mirror Laughs: Face to Face with Three Recent Irish Stage Worlds....Pages 122-136
Then Like Gigli, Now Like Bette: The Grotesque and the Sublime in Mark O’Rowe’s Terminus ....Pages 137-146
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Shakespearean Productions at the Abbey Theatre, 1970–1985....Pages 149-161
Snapshots: A Year in the Life of a Theatre Judge....Pages 162-177
The Irish Play on the London Stage: An Overview from Independence to the Present....Pages 178-188
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
The Diverse Dramatic Contributions of Frank McGuinness....Pages 191-204
Pat Kinevane’s Forgotten and Silent: Universalizing the Abject....Pages 205-215
Writing for ‘the real national theatre’: Stewart Parker’s Plays for Television....Pages 216-229
Playing with Minds: Beckett on Film....Pages 230-238
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Sam Shepard, Irish Playwright....Pages 241-256
Back Matter....Pages 257-265