Theatre and archival memory : Irish drama and marginalised histories 1951-1977 / Barry Houlihan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Houlihan, Barry, author.

Contributor:

J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Ireland--History--20th century.

Theater.

Irish drama.

English drama--Irish authors.

Theater and society.

History.

Ireland.

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

English drama--Irish authors--20th century--History and criticism.

English drama.

Irish drama--20th century--History and criticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 275 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

Summary:

This book presents new insights into the production and reception of Irish drama, its internationalisation and political influences, within a pivotal period of Irish cultural and social change. From the 1950s onwards, Irish theatre engaged audiences within new theatrical forms at venues from the Pike Theatre, the Project Arts Centre, and the Gate Theatre, as well as at Irelands national theatre, the Abbey. Drawing on newly released and digitised archival records, this book argues for an inclusive historiography reflective of the formative impacts upon modern Irish theatre as recorded within marginalised performance histories. This study examines these works' experimental dramaturgical impacts in terms of production, reception, and archival legacies. The book, framed by the device of archival memory, serves as a means for scholars and theatre-makers to inter-contextualise existing historiography and to challenge canon formation. It also presents a new social history of Irish theatre told from the fringes of history and reanimated through archival memory.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Towards an Archival Memory

Performance and Archive

2. Performing the Family: Law and the State

3. Internationalising Irish Drama: A Global Stage

4. The Pike Theatre and Intercultural Ireland

5. Radical Dramaturgies: Censorship and Dramatic Expression

6. Staging the Memoryscape of Middle-Class Ireland

7. 1970s Ireland: Performing the Immersive Political

8. Conclusions: Memory and the Periphery in Irish Drama.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9783030745479

3030745473

OCLC:

1259524089

Publisher Number:

99989053745