Brady, S: Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture

The highly performative categories of 'Irish culture' and 'Irishness' are in need of critical address, prompted by recent changes in Irish society, the arts industry and modes of critical inquiry. This book broaches this task by considering Irish expressive culture through some of the paradigms and vocabularies offered by performance studies.

Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture

Arts & Photography

Brady, Sara

Walsh, Fintan

Music

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Walsh argues that there are many links between theatre and therapy when considering actor training, theatre in therapeutic contexts, and contemporary theatre and performance. He draws on a range of examples that include the drama of Sarah Kane, the method acting of Daniel Day Lewis and performances by Ruby Wax and David Hoyle.

Theatre and Therapy (Theatre And, 8)

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Methuen Drama

Performing Grief in Pandemic Theatres (Elements in Contemporary Performance Texts)

Cambridge University Press

Performing Grief In Pandemic Theatres

The highly performative categories of 'Irish culture' and 'Irishness' are in need of critical address, prompted by recent changes in Irish society, the arts industry and modes of critical inquiry. This book broaches this task by considering Irish expressive culture through some of the paradigms and vocabularies offered by performance studies.

Sports & Outdoors

This book examines the surge of queer performance produced across Ireland since the first stirrings of the Celtic Tiger in the mid-1990s, up to the passing of the Marriage Equality referendum in the Republic in 2015.

Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland: Dissent and Disorientation (Contemporary Performance InterActions)

History

Europe

This book examines the surge of queer performance produced across Ireland since the first stirrings of the Celtic Tiger in the mid-1990s, up to the passing of the Marriage Equality referendum in the Republic in 2015.

Performing the Queer Past: Public Possessions (Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances)

'Tender and rigorous, this book invites readers to linger with difficult pasts and consider how best to grasp their hauntings, demands and manifestations in the present. This is a book about mourning as well as holding, a simultaneous act of exhumation and a laying to rest.' anna six, author of Madness, Art, and Society: Beyond Illness 'This is an extraordinary book, in which queer theatre and performance become sites of celebration and resistance, as well as holding the potential for performers and audiences to work through painfully felt yet difficult to articulate experiences towards feelings of hope. Replete with rigorous, generous and creative readings, it is also a meditation on Walsh's own emotional engagement with queer theatre and performance, and how our cultural attachments can sustain, enliven and contain us.' Noreen Giffney, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and author of The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis Why do contemporary queer theatre and performance appear to be possessed by the past? What aesthetic practices and dramaturgical devices reveal the occupation of the present by painful history? How might the experience of theatre and performance relieve the present of its most arduous burdens? Following recent legislation and cultural initiatives across many Western countries hailed as confirming the darkest days for LGBTQ+ people were over, this book turns our attention to artists fixed on history's enduring harm. Guiding us through an eclectic range of examples including theatre, performance, installation and digital practices, Fintan Walsh explores how this work reckons with complex cultural and personal histories. Among the issues confronted are the incarceration of Oscar Wilde, the Holocaust, racial and sexual objectification, the AIDS crisis and Covid-19, alongside more local and individual experiences of violence, trauma and grief. Walsh traces how the queer past is summoned and interrogated via what he elaborates as the aesthetics and dramaturgies of possession, which lend form to the still-stinging aches and generative potential of injury, injustice and loss. These strategies expose how the past continues to haunt and disturb the present, while calling on those of us who feel its force to respond to history's unresolved hurt.

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Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture

Theatre and Therapy (Theatre And, 8)

Performing Grief in Pandemic Theatres (Elements in Contemporary Performance Texts)

Performing Grief in Pandemic Theatres (Elements in Contemporary Performance Texts)

Performing Grief In Pandemic Theatres

Brady, S: Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture

Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland: Dissent and Disorientation (Contemporary Performance InterActions)

Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture

Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland: Dissent and Disorientation (Contemporary Performance InterActions)

Performing the Queer Past: Public Possessions (Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances)