Devised performance in Irish theatre
Subtitle: histories and contemporary practice
By: edited by Siobhán O'Gorman and Charlotte McIvor
Publisher: Carysfort Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Dublin, Ireland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781909325784
Subjects: Experimental theater
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Devising Ireland: genealogies and contestations / Charlotte McIvor and Siobhán O'Gorman; title: Section one: Devising as a collaborative art; title: Spectres of Connolly: The non-stop Connolly show reconsidered / Michael Jaros; title: A portrait of the citizen as artist: community arts, devising and contemporary Irish theatre practice / Charlotte McIvor; title: "Whose art is is anyway?" A critical and historical analysis of Upstate Theatre project / Irene White; title: Interview with Una McKevitt (Una McKevitt Productions) / Jesse Weaver; title: A song about survival: Talking Shop Ensemble responds to the Irish debt crisis / Laura Farrell-Wortman; title: Section two: Formal politics; title: A theatre of truth? Negotiating place, politics and policy in the Dublin fringe / Miriam Haughton; title: Mapping contemporary European theatre(s): reconsidering notions of devised and post-dramatic theatres / Noelia Ruiz; title: An interview with Gavin Quinnn (Pan Pan Theatre) / Noelia Ruiz; title: Section Three: Regional practices; title: Staging Blue Raincoat's production of WB Yeats's The cat and the moon (2009) and At the Hawk's Well (2010) / Rhona Trench; title: Repeating, revising and devising: communities in contemporary Galway theatre / Siobhán O'Gorman; title: Interview with Máiréad Ní Chronin (Moonfish Theatre) / Charlotte McIvor; title: Section four: Northern approaches; title: Reawakening Belfast's streets: tourism and memory in site-specific Northern Irish theatre / Eleanor Owicki; title: Politics, pride, and performance: theatreofplucK's devised queer dramaturgies in Northern Ireland / Caitriona Mary Reilly; title: Interview with Will Chamberlain (Belfast Community Circus) /Siobhán O'Gorman.