Irish Theatre in Transition: From the Late Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century

Introduction: The Irish Theater in Transition; Donald E Morse PART I: FOUNDATIONS AND REFOUNDATIONS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 1. The Irish Theatre: The First Hundred Years 1897-1997; Christopher Murray PART II: ENGAGING WITH A CHANGING REALITY 2. Black Hole Experiences: Moochers, Smoochers, Dig Outs and the Parables and Spasms of Time in Conor McPherson's The Night Alive; Eamonn Jordan 3. Queer Creatures, Queer Places: Otherness and Normativity in Irish Drama from Synge to Friel; José Lanters 4. Troubled Relations of Gender and Generation in Celtic Tiger Drama: Stella Feehily's Duck and O Go My Man; Mária Kurdi 5. 'The Politics of Aging': Frank McGuinness's The Hanging Gardens; Donald E Morse PART III: ENHANCED THEATRICALITY 6. The Play within the Play in Select Contemporary Irish Plays; Csilla Bertha 7. When the Mirror Laughs: Face to Face with Three Irish Stage Worlds; Eric Weitz 8. Then Like Gigli, Now Like Bette: The Grotesque and the Sublime in Mark O'Rowe's Terminus; Ond?ej Pilný PART IV: REFRAIMING TRANSITION 9. Shakespearean Productions at the Abbey Theatre: 1970-1985; Patrick Lonergan 10. Snapshots: A Year in the Life of a Theatre Judge; Nicholas Grene 11. The Irish Play on the London Stage: An Overview from Independence to the Present; Peter James Harris PART V: INVENTIVENESS AND EXPANDING THE STAGE 12. The Diverse Dramatic Contributions of Frank McGuinness; Helen Heuser Lojek 13. Pat Kinevane's Forgotten and Silent: Universalizing the Abject; Joan FitzPatrick Dean 14. Writing for 'the real national theatre' - Stewart Parker's Plays for Television; Clare Wallace 15. Playing with Minds: Beckett on Film; Dawn Duncan PART VI: ON THE RE-FOUNDATION OF THE IRISH THEATRE 16. Sam Shepard, Irish Playwright; Stephen Watt Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index