Staging thought
Subtitle: essays on Irish theatre, scholarship and practice
By: Rhona Trench [editor]
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783034308045
Subjects: Theater; Performing arts; Congresses; History
Notes: Essays originally presented at a Irish Society for Theatre Research (ISTR) conference, hosted by the Institute of Technology, Sligo, in 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Performance process, practice and space. The sound of one hand clapping / Frank Conway; title: A blend of Irish and European theatre process and practice: Blue Raincoat Theatre Company's production of W.B. Yeats' The cat and the moon (1926) / Rhona Trench; title: Place and non-place: discussing physicality and story in Barabbas Theatre Company's Circus (2007) / Carmen Szabo; title: Cultural differences in staging Brian Friel's Translations in Romania / Agnes Pallai; title: Theatre, text and performance. Ways of seeing and The Womb-Theatre: theatrical space and scenic presentation in Marina Carr's Ariel / Enrica Cerquoni; title: The actor's body as a heterotopic language in Bill Morrison's The marriage / Virginie Privas-Braut; title: Irish theatre studies in the performance age: the case of Stewart Parker / Caoileann Thompson; title: "It would never happen on The Waltons": Enda Walsh's The Walworth farce  / Eamonn Jordan; title: Performance, performers and audience. Sleight of frame: exploitations of comic feeling by two Irish playwrights / Eric Weitz; title: "God's comic": narratives of performed identity of Irish stand-up comedian Tommy Tiernan /  Suzanne Colleary; title: Decoding the audience: Enda Walsh's Chatroom (2008) / Fiona Fearon; title: Performing memory, ritual and tradition. Fashion advice: Constance Markievicz's "Unmarked", "Mismarked" and "Remarkable" women / Mary Caulfield; title: Broken narratives, performing ruins: Yeats, Beckett and the dramatic landscape of catastrophe / Michael Jaros; title: J.M. Synge, W.B. Yeats and The changeling of the Western World / Christopher Collins; title: Female self-Authorship and reperformance of the "Good death" in Marina Carr's Woman and scarecrow / Shonagh Hill; title: Performing cultural identities. "The less you bump, the faster you go": staged scenes of Dissensus in CoisCim's Dodgems / Aoife McGrath; title: Theatre and nation: performing statelessness in Ireland and abroad / Steve Wilmer; title: Performing cultural trauma: The 1980 "A Sense of Ireland" Festival / Holly Maples.