Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland [electronic resource] : Dissent and Disorientation /
Walsh, Fintan.author.
This book examines the surge of queer performance produced across Ireland since the first stirrings of the Celtic Tiger in the mid-1990s, up to the passing of the Marriage Equality referendum in the Republic in 2015.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: queer performance and contemporary Ireland -- Activism, drag and solo performance -- Reparative therapies and political performers -- Transforming shame and testimonial performance -- Intergenerational moves and documentary theatre -- Sex, class and the city: site-specific roots and routes -- Vertiginous loss, love and belonging on the national stage -- Afterword: reeling-feeling.
This book examines the surge of queer performance produced across Ireland since the first stirrings of the Celtic Tiger in the mid-1990s, up to the passing of the Marriage Equality referendum in the Republic in 2015.
Theater—History.
Performing arts.
Theater.
Arts.
Theatre History.
Performing Arts.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Arts.