The Golden Thread

Irish Women Playwrights, Volume 2 (1992-2016)

David Clare, Fiona McDonagh, Justine Nakase (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2021
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-80085-947-0 (ISBN)

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Sold as a multi-volume set – the individual volumes are also available for purchase.

This two-volume edited collection illuminates the valuable counter-canon of Irish women’s playwriting with forty-two essays written by leading and emerging Irish theatre scholars and practitioners. Covering three hundred years of Irish theatre history from 1716 to 2016, it is the most comprehensive study of plays written by Irish women to date. These short essays provide both a valuable introduction and innovative analysis of key playtexts, bringing renewed attention to scripts and writers that continue to be under-represented in theatre criticism and performance.

Volume Two contains chapters focused on plays by sixteen Irish women playwrights produced between 1992 and 2016, highlighting the explosion of new work by contemporary writers. The plays in this volume explore women’s experiences at the intersections of class, sexuality, disability, and ethnicity, pushing at the boundaries of how we define not only Irish theatre, but Irish identity more broadly.

CONTRIBUTORS: Nelson Barre, Mary Burke, David Clare, Shonagh Hill, *Mária Kurdi, **José Lanters, **Fiona McDonagh, Dorothy Morrissey, Justine Nakase, Brian Ó Conchubhair, Brenda O'Connell, Shane O'Neill, Graham Price, **Siobhán Purcell, *Carole Quigley, Sarah Jane Scaife, Melissa Sihra, Clare Wallace

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David Clare is Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. Fiona McDonagh is Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. Justine Nakase is Adjunct Lecturer at Portland State University.

Introduction
David Clare, Fiona McDonagh & Justine Nakase

Marie Jones’s Don’t Look Down (1992): Representations of Disability for Young Audiences
Fiona McDonagh

Lesbianism and Legibility in Emma Donoghue’s I Know My Own Heart (1993)
Shonagh Hill

Learning to Play Poker: The Re-vision of Irish Women’s Agency in Gina Moxley’s Danti-Dan (1995)
Nelson Barre

Directing Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats… (1998) in China
Sarah Jane Scaife

Ursula Rani Sarma’s Blue (2000) and Social Transformation in Ireland
Shane O’Neill

Challenging “Good Taste”: Roslaeen McDonagh’s The Baby Doll Project (2003) and the Creation of a “Traveller Canon”
Mary Burke

Disordered States and Affective Economies in Stella Feehily’s O Go My Man (2006)
Clare Wallace

Living in a Rape Culture: Gang Rape and “Toxic Masculinity” in Abbie Spallen’s Pumpgirl (2006)
Carole Quigley

Marina Carr’s Woman and Scarecrow (2006) and the Ars Moriendi
José Lanters

Lizzie Nunnery’s Intemperance (2007) and Compromised Mental Health among the Irish in Britain
David Clare

Memory, History, and Forgetting in Anne Devlin’s The Forgotten (2009)
Graham Price

“We are here, we were here all along”: Queer Invisibility and Performing Age in Amy Conroy’s I (Heart) Alice (Heart) I (2010)
Brenda O’Connell

Motherhood and the Search for Recognition in Deirdre Kinahan’s Moment (2011)
Dorothy Morrissey

“Unrealing the Real”: Disability and Darwinism in Lynda Radley’s Futureproof (2011)
Siobhán Purcell

Family Dysfunction and Character Dynamics: Nancy Harris’s Our New Girl (2012) in Conversation with Marina Carr’s Portia Coughlin (1996) and Martin Crimp’s The Country (2000)
Mária Kurdi

Unconscious Casting: Stacey Gregg’s Shibboleth (2015), Walls, and the (En)Gendering of Violence
Justine Nakase

Nevertheless, She Persisted: Celia de Fréine’s Luíse (2016)
Brian Ó Conchubhair

Coda – Spinning Gold: Threads of Augusta Gregory and Marina Carr
Melissa Sihra

Erscheinungsdatum	06.08.2021
Verlagsort	Liverpool
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 239 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-80085-947-3 / 1800859473
ISBN-13	978-1-80085-947-0 / 9781800859470
Zustand	Neuware