A stage of emancipation : change and progress at the Dublin Gate Theatre / edited by Marguérite Corporaal and Ruud van den Beuken.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Corporaal, Marguérite, editor.

Beuken, Ruud van den, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dublin Gate Theatre.

Theater and society--Ireland--Dublin--History--20th century.

Theater and society.

Theater and society--Ireland--Dublin--History--21st century.

History.

Ireland--Dublin.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: A Stage of Emancipation / Ruud van den Beuken

pt. I Liberating Bodies

2. Queering the Irish Actress: The Gate Theatre Production of Children in Uniform (1934) / Mary Trotter

3. Maura Laverty at the Gate: Theatre as Social Commentary in 1950s Ireland / Deirdre McFeely

pt. II Emancipating Communities

4. `Let's Be Gay, While We May': Artistic Platforms and the Construction of Queer Communities in Mary Manning's Youths the Season

? / Grace Vroomen

5. Images and Imperatives: Robert Collis's Marrowbone Lane. (1939) at the Gate as Theatre for Social Change / Ian R. Walsh

6. Authenticity and Social Change on the Gate Stage in the 1970s: `Communicating with the People' / Barry Houlihan

pt. III Staging Minority Languages

7. Micheal mac Liammoir, the Irish Language, and the Idea of Freedom / Radvan Markus

8. The Use of Minority Languages at Dublin's Gate Theatre and Barcelona's Teatre Lliure / David Clare

pt. IV Deconstructing Aesthetics

9. Mogu and the Unicorn: Frederick May's Music for the Gate Theatre / Mark Fitzgerald

10. Tartan Transpositions: Materialising Europe, Ireland, and Scotland in the Designs of Molly MacEwen / Siobhdn O'Gorman

pt. V Contesting Traditions in Contemporary Theatre

11. From White Othello to Black Hamlet: A History of Race and Representation at the Gate Theatre / Justine Nakase

12. Bending the Plots: Selina Cartmell's Gate and Politics of Gender Inclusion / Marguerite Corporaal.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781800859517

1800859511

9781800856103

1800856105

OCLC:

1199327878