The Gate Theatre, Dublin : inspiration and craft / David Clare, Des Lally, and Patrick Lonergan (eds).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clare, David, 1971- editor.

Lally, Des, editor.

Lonergan, Patrick, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dublin Gate Theatre.

Theater--Ireland--Dublin--History.

Theater.

Ireland--Dublin.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 421 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2018]

Summary:

"The Gate Theatre is one of Ireland's major theatres. It has produced important new plays by such figures as Brian Friel, Conor McPherson, and Denis Johnston - while also premiering significant works by other writers, including unjustly-neglected female dramatists such as Mary Manning, Christine Longford, and Maura Laverty. It has made huge contributions to the art of theatre in Ireland - not only in relation to acting (launching the careers of Orson Welles, James Mason, and Michael Gambon) but also in terms of direction and design. And it has made a major contribution to the world's understanding of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, and others. Despite these incredible achievements, the theatre has been the subject of very little critical attention to date. This book redresses this problem; it is, in fact, the very first scholarly essay collection devoted entirely to the theatre. It gathers together leading academics and critics who explore the Gate's achievements in relation to the development of new Irish writing and new Irish theatre practices. The book is written with scholarly rigour but also in accessible language, and is therefore be of interest to anyone with a passion for Irish theatre"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Experiment and the free state: Mrs. Cogley's cabaret and the founding of the Gate Theatre, 1924-1930 / Elaine Sisson

Hilton Edwards as director: shade of modernity / Ian R. Walsh

"Ancient Ireland comes to rathmines": memory, identity, and diversity in Micheál MacLiammóir's Where stars walk (1940) / Ruud van den Beuken

Micheál MacLiammóir: the erotic-exotic and the Dublin Gate Theatre / Richard Pine

Desperationists and ineffectuals: Mary Manning's Gate plays of the 1930s / José Lanters

Denis Johnston at the Gate: a groundbreaking yet neglected writer / Virginie Girel-Pietka

Magic windows: Ria Mooney at the Gate Theatre / Ciara O'Dowd

Lord Longford's Yahoo: an alternative national myth from an alternative national theatre / Feargal Whelan

Class, land, and Irishness: winners and losers: Christine Longford (1900-1980) / Cathy Leeney

Longford Productions, Bernard Shaw, and the Irish Big House / Audrey McNamara

The fictionalisation of Hilton Edwards and Micheál MacLiammóir in the novel Stravaganza! (1963), by Paul Smith / Des Lally

Brian Friel at the Gate: lovers in Dublin and New York / Anthony Roche

"Our only thorough playwright": Oscar Wilde and the Gate Theatre / Noreen Doody

Goldsmith, the Gate, and the "hibernicising" of Anglo-Irish plays / David Clare

Staging American drama at the Gate Theatre, 1928-2016 / Christopher Murray

"Staging an encounter": Brian Friel's Faith Healer, Bracha Ettinger, and the art-encounter-event / Graham Price

"Be again, be again": the Gate's Beckett country / Trish McTighe

The Gate, Endgame, and the second law of thermodynamics / Aoife Lynch

Harold Pinter at the Gate Theatre: "a kind of homecoming" / Emma Creedon

Appendix A: Gate Theatre chronology (1928-1982): the Edwards-MacLiammóir and Longford directorates / Des Lally, David Clare, and Ruud van den Beuken

Appendix B: Gate Theatre chronology (1983-2017): the Michael Colgan directorate and the appointment of Selina Cartmell / David Clare.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781788746243

1788746244

OCLC:

1050455337

Publisher Number:

99982602160