Irish Theatre in Transition

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction: The Irish Theatre in Transition

   1. Introduction: The Irish Theatre in Transition

      • Donald E. Morse

      Pages 1-9

3. Foundations and Refoundations in Historical Perspective

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. The Irish Theatre: The First Hundred Years, 1897–1997

      • Christopher Murray

      Pages 13-30

4. Engaging with a Changing Reality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31

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   2. Black Hole Experiences: Moochers, Smoochers, Dig Outs and the Parables and Spasms of Time in Conor McPherson’s The Night Alive

      • Eamonn Jordan

      Pages 33-53

   3. Queer Creatures, Queer Place: Otherness and Normativity in Irish Drama from Synge to Friel

      • José Lanters

      Pages 54-67

   4. Troubled Relations of Gender and Generation in Celtic Tiger Drama: Stella Feehily’s Duck and O Go My Man

      • Mária Kurdi

      Pages 68-81

   5. ‘The Politics of Aging’: Frank McGuinness’s The Hanging Gardens

      • Donald E. Morse

      Pages 82-96

5. Enhanced Theatricality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. Theatricality and Self-Reflexivity: The Play-within-the-Play in Select Contemporary Irish Plays

      • Csilla Bertha

      Pages 99-121

   3. When the Mirror Laughs: Face to Face with Three Recent Irish Stage Worlds

      • Eric Weitz

      Pages 122-136

   4. Then Like Gigli, Now Like Bette: The Grotesque and the Sublime in Mark O’Rowe’s Terminus

      • Ondřej Pilný

      Pages 137-146

6. Reframing Transition

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147

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   2. Shakespearean Productions at the Abbey Theatre, 1970–1985

      • Patrick Lonergan

      Pages 149-161

   3. Snapshots: A Year in the Life of a Theatre Judge

      • Nicholas Grene

      Pages 162-177

   4. The Irish Play on the London Stage: An Overview from Independence to the Present

      • Peter James Harris

      Pages 178-188

7. Inventiveness and Expanding the Stage

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189

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   2. The Diverse Dramatic Contributions of Frank McGuinness

      • Helen Heusner Lojek

      Pages 191-204

   3. Pat Kinevane’s Forgotten and Silent: Universalizing the Abject

      • Joan FitzPatrick Dean

      Pages 205-215

The Irish Theatre in Transition explores the ever-changing Irish Theatre from its inception to its vibrant modern-day reality. This book shows some of the myriad forms of transition and how Irish theatre reflects the changing conditions of a changing society and nation.

• Irish
• Theatre
• History of performance
• Contemporary performance
• drama
• stage
• television
• theatre
• William Shakespeare

• University of Debrecen, Hungary

  Donald E. Morse

Csilla Bertha, University of Debrecen, Hungary Dawn Duncan, Concordia College-Moorhead, USA Joan FitzPatrick Dean, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA Nicholas Grene, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Peter James Harris, State University of São Paulo, Brazil Eamonn Jordan, University College Dublin, Ireland Mária Kurdi, University of Pécs, Hungary José Lanters, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Helen Heusner Lojek, Boise State University, USA Patrick Lonergan, National University of Ireland-Galway, Ireland Donald E. Morse, University of Debrecen, Hungary Christopher Murray, University College-Dublin, Ireland Ond?ej Pilný, Charles University, Czech Republic Clare Wallace, Charles University, Czech Republic Stephen Watt, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA EricWeitz, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

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