The dreaming body
Subtitle: contemporary Irish theatre
By: edited by Melissa Sihra and Paul Murphy.
Contributors: Sihra, Melissa, 1973-; Murphy, Paul, 1971-
Series: Ulster editions and monographs -- 16; Ulster editions and monographs -- 16.
Publisher: Colin Smythe Limited; Distributed in North America by Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780861404650
Subjects: Irish drama -- History and criticism; English drama -- Irish authors -- History and criticism; Theater -- Ireland
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The wood road / Seamus Heaney; title: Introduction, 'The dreaming body' / Melissa Sihra & Paul Murphy; title: Urban drama: any myth will do? / Eamonn Jordan; title: Excerpt from Marina Carr's Chekhov / introduced by Melissa Sihra; title: Showtime: the strategy of mischief in the plays of Stewart Parker / Lynne Parker; title: Performing 'authentic' Ireland: (dis)connecting the cultural politics of the Irish revival and the Celtic tiger on the Irish stage / Mark Phelan; title: Staging morality in On Rafferty's hill: a Kristevan reading / Rhona Trench; title: Terry Eaglton's Saint Oscar / Stephen Regan; title: Excerpt from Terry Eagleton's Saint Oscar; title: Queer eye on the Irish guy: transgressive sexualites and the performance of nation / Brian Singleton; title: Operating theatre and Angel/Babel / Olwen Fouéré; title: Looking for Fiona: gender and nationality in the works of Fiona Shaw / Aoife Monks; title: Brian Friel's Wonderful Tennessee, or what was lost in Translations / Paul Murphy; title: The future of ancient Greek tragedy / Conall Morrison; title: Excerpet from Conall Morrison's The bacchae of Baghdad; title: Birthdays and deathdays in the theatre of Samuel Beckett and Marina Carr / Melissa Sihra; title: En otre Palabras: Frank McGuinness and Spanish drama / David Johnston; title: Donal O'Kelly in conversation with Paul Murphy; title: Des Maxwell: an afterword / Robert Welch.