The Theatre of Tom MacIntyre
Strays from the Ether
Herausgegeben:Sweeney, Bernadette; Kelly, Marie
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Strays from the Ether
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This long overdue anthology captures the soul of MacIntyre's dramatic canon - its ethereal qualities, its extraordinary diversity, its emphasis on the poetic and on performance - in an extensive range of visual, journalistic and scholarly contributions from writers and theatre practitioners.
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This long overdue anthology captures the soul of MacIntyre's dramatic canon - its ethereal qualities, its extraordinary diversity, its emphasis on the poetic and on performance - in an extensive range of visual, journalistic and scholarly contributions from writers and theatre practitioners.
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- Verlag: Peter Lang
- Artikelnr. des Verlages: 874866
- Seitenzahl: 376
- Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 225mm x 150mm x 21mm
- Gewicht: 528g
- ISBN-13: 9781788748667
- ISBN-10: 1788748662
- Artikelnr.: 58299256
- Carysfort Press Ltd. 207
- Verlag: Peter Lang
- Artikelnr. des Verlages: 874866
- Seitenzahl: 376
- Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 225mm x 150mm x 21mm
- Gewicht: 528g
- ISBN-13: 9781788748667
- ISBN-10: 1788748662
- Artikelnr.: 58299256
Bernadette Sweeney is a theatre and performance practitioner and lecturer. She published Performing the Body in Irish Theatre with Palgrave Macmillan in 2008. She completed her PhD at Trinity College Dublin and lectures in drama and theatre studies at University College Cork and the University of Montana, U.S. Marie Kelly was casting director at the Abbey Theatre between 2001 and 2006. She is currently completing a PhD on the work of Tom Mac Intyre at University College Dublin under a postgraduate scholarship from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
CONTENTS
List of illustrations Acknowledgements
xvi xix
Preface/Réamhrá
Fiach Mac Conghail
Introduction: 'Strays from the ether'
Bernadette Sweeney Marie Kelly
Chapter 1: 'Someone opened a door ... And now the traffic's racin' ...'
A Vibrant Presence:
A Biography of Tom Mac Intyre's Work
Bernadette Sweeney
Introduction to The Harper's Turn
Seamus Heaney
In Conversation with Tom Mac Intyre
Vincent Woods
Tom Mac Intyre: Border Country Bandit
Tom Hickey
xxiii
1
23
43
44
55
x The Theatre of Tom Mac Intyre
Chapter 2: 'a conspirator's gleam'
The Long Surrender: Finding a Theatrical Voice 65
Through the Plays of the 1970s
Ben Francombe
Theatre Review: 'Salome gets Modern Treatment' 81
(The Irish Independent, 10 May 1977)
Desmond Rushe
Theatre Review: Doobally/Black Way 81
(The Irish Times, 9 October 1979)
David Nowlan
Theatre Review: 'A Nimble Mime at the Peacock' 82
(The Evening Press, August 1976)
Michael Sheridan
Chapter 3: 'Down the ruckety pass'
A Director's Note 85
Patrick Mason
On Design 87
Environmental Design and the Plays of Tom Mac Intyre
Bronwen Casson
Environmental Design in the Dublin Theatre 89
John Barrett
Theatre Review: 'A Great Poem Without Words' 93
(The Irish Press, 11 May 1983)
Gerard Stembridge
Theatre Review: 'Images of Fragmented Ireland' 94
(The Sunday Independent, 20 July 1986)
Colm Tóibín
Theatre Review: The Great Hunger
(The Guardian, 13 August 1986)
Michael Billington
Theatre Review: 'People Hungering After Humanity' (The Guardian, 27 November 1986)
Nicholas de Jongh
In the Beginning Was ... the Image ... (Theatre Ireland, 1984)
Kathryn Holmquist
Programme Note: 'The Hurt Mind' (Peacock Theatre, 1986)
Dermot Healy
Programme Note:
'The Ghost, the Gate and the Go Beyant' (Peacock Theatre, 1986)
Michael Harding
Oedipal Desire in Mac Intyre's The Great Hunger: A Palaeo Postmodern Perspective
Catriona Ryan
'What Shall I Wear, Darling, to The Great Hunger?'
Paul Durcan
95
96
98
105
109
111
125
Chapter 4: 'Warming to the fray'
Theatre Review: The Bearded Lady
(Theatre Ireland, Autumn 1984)
Joseph Mc Minn
Theatre Review: The Bearded Lady
(The Irish Press, 12 September 1984)
Peter Thompson
In Conversation with Bríd Ní Neachtain
Marie Kelly
133
135
136
The Lunatics in the Basement:
Madness in Mac Intyre
Dermod Moore
New Dimensions: Spaces for Play in the Theatre of Tom Mac Intyre
Marie Kelly
Theatre Review: Rise Up Lovely Sweeney
(The Sunday Tribune, 15 September 1985)
Fintan O'Toole
Programme Note: Dance for your Daddy 'Must you Play the Piano in your Nightgown?' (Peacock Theatre, 1987)
Dermot Healy
Theatre Review: Dance for your Daddy
(The Irish Times, 3 March 1987)
David Nowlan
Scenes from Snow White
Tom Mac Intyre
Programme Note: 'Chomh geal le Sneachta' (Peacock Theatre, 1988)
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Theatre Review: Snow White
(Theatre Ireland, Summer 1988)
David Calvert
Theatre Review: Snow White
(The Irish Times, 28 June 1988)
David Nowlan
Performing Women in Tom Mac Intyre's Drama
SarahJane Scaife
Tom Mac Intyre and Theatre of the Image
Daniel Shea
139
145
165
167
170
171
176
178
180
181
198
Chapter 5: 'a gradle o' stories'
Programme Note: Kitty O'Shea
(Peacock Theatre, 1990)
Medbh McGuckian
Theatre Review: Kitty O'Shea
(Theatre Ireland, October 1990)
Victoria White
Theatre Review: Fine Day for a Hunt
(The Galway Advertiser, 23 July 1992)
Jeff O'Connell
Theatre Review: Chickadee
(The Sunday Tribune, 23 May 1993)
Jocelyn Clarke
Programme Note:
'The Night Before the Morning After' (Peacock Theatre, 1994)
Ciaran Carson
'Between two languages ...'
Olwen Fouéré
Images of Sheep's Milk on the Boil
Amelia Stein
Second Opinion: Sheep's Milk on the Boil
(The Irish Times, 2 March 1994)
Fintan O'Toole
Good Evening, Mr Collins
Christina Hunt Mahony
Theatre Review: Good Evening, Mr Collins
(The Irish Times, 12 October 1995)
David Nowlan
Programme Note: 'The Bandit Pen' (Peacock Theatre, October 1995)
Marina Carr
215
218
220
221
223
224
226
237
239
244
245
Stories Happen to Storytellers
Karen Ardiff
A Conversation with Carolyn Swift, Tom Mac Intyre, and John Scott on You Must Tell the Bees
(UCD Forum, 1996)
Deirdre Mulrooney
'The Magic of Dissonance'
(The Irish Times, 24 September 1996)
Helen Meany
Theatre Review: The Chirpaun
(The Irish Times, 4 December 1997)
Victoria White
Theatre Review: Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire
(The Irish Times, 20 April 1998)
Diarmuid Johnson
Programme Note: Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire
(Peacock Theatre, 1998)
Alan Titley
Choreographing Cúirt an Mheán Oíche
Finola Cronin
247
256
263
265
266
267
270
Chapter 6: 'between the worlds'
Theatre Review: The Gallant John-Joe
(The Irish Times, 29 November 2001)
Fintan O'Toole
Ballet in the Bog
(The Guardian, 23 February 2005)
John Mahoney
Mapping the World of Bridgie Cleary
Joe Van k
279
280
285
Theatre Review: What Happened Bridgie Cleary
(The Irish Times, 29 May 2005)
Fintan O'Toole
Theatre Review: What Happened Bridgie Cleary
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 19 May 2005)
Patrick Lonergan
Theatre Review: What Happened Bridgie Cleary
(The Guardian, 29 April 2005)
Karen Fricker
298
299
301
Anarchic and Strange: Only an Apple
302
Bernadette Sweeney and Marie Kelly Cartmell
with
Selina
Theatre Review: Only an Apple
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 6 May 2009)
314
Patrick Lonergan
Letters to the Editor
316
Eilish MacCurtain Pearse Augustine Martin Sebastian Barry
The Hurt Mind (1985) Tom Mac Intyre
321
Notes on the Contributors 323
Index 327
List of illustrations Acknowledgements
xvi xix
Preface/Réamhrá
Fiach Mac Conghail
Introduction: 'Strays from the ether'
Bernadette Sweeney Marie Kelly
Chapter 1: 'Someone opened a door ... And now the traffic's racin' ...'
A Vibrant Presence:
A Biography of Tom Mac Intyre's Work
Bernadette Sweeney
Introduction to The Harper's Turn
Seamus Heaney
In Conversation with Tom Mac Intyre
Vincent Woods
Tom Mac Intyre: Border Country Bandit
Tom Hickey
xxiii
1
23
43
44
55
x The Theatre of Tom Mac Intyre
Chapter 2: 'a conspirator's gleam'
The Long Surrender: Finding a Theatrical Voice 65
Through the Plays of the 1970s
Ben Francombe
Theatre Review: 'Salome gets Modern Treatment' 81
(The Irish Independent, 10 May 1977)
Desmond Rushe
Theatre Review: Doobally/Black Way 81
(The Irish Times, 9 October 1979)
David Nowlan
Theatre Review: 'A Nimble Mime at the Peacock' 82
(The Evening Press, August 1976)
Michael Sheridan
Chapter 3: 'Down the ruckety pass'
A Director's Note 85
Patrick Mason
On Design 87
Environmental Design and the Plays of Tom Mac Intyre
Bronwen Casson
Environmental Design in the Dublin Theatre 89
John Barrett
Theatre Review: 'A Great Poem Without Words' 93
(The Irish Press, 11 May 1983)
Gerard Stembridge
Theatre Review: 'Images of Fragmented Ireland' 94
(The Sunday Independent, 20 July 1986)
Colm Tóibín
Theatre Review: The Great Hunger
(The Guardian, 13 August 1986)
Michael Billington
Theatre Review: 'People Hungering After Humanity' (The Guardian, 27 November 1986)
Nicholas de Jongh
In the Beginning Was ... the Image ... (Theatre Ireland, 1984)
Kathryn Holmquist
Programme Note: 'The Hurt Mind' (Peacock Theatre, 1986)
Dermot Healy
Programme Note:
'The Ghost, the Gate and the Go Beyant' (Peacock Theatre, 1986)
Michael Harding
Oedipal Desire in Mac Intyre's The Great Hunger: A Palaeo Postmodern Perspective
Catriona Ryan
'What Shall I Wear, Darling, to The Great Hunger?'
Paul Durcan
95
96
98
105
109
111
125
Chapter 4: 'Warming to the fray'
Theatre Review: The Bearded Lady
(Theatre Ireland, Autumn 1984)
Joseph Mc Minn
Theatre Review: The Bearded Lady
(The Irish Press, 12 September 1984)
Peter Thompson
In Conversation with Bríd Ní Neachtain
Marie Kelly
133
135
136
The Lunatics in the Basement:
Madness in Mac Intyre
Dermod Moore
New Dimensions: Spaces for Play in the Theatre of Tom Mac Intyre
Marie Kelly
Theatre Review: Rise Up Lovely Sweeney
(The Sunday Tribune, 15 September 1985)
Fintan O'Toole
Programme Note: Dance for your Daddy 'Must you Play the Piano in your Nightgown?' (Peacock Theatre, 1987)
Dermot Healy
Theatre Review: Dance for your Daddy
(The Irish Times, 3 March 1987)
David Nowlan
Scenes from Snow White
Tom Mac Intyre
Programme Note: 'Chomh geal le Sneachta' (Peacock Theatre, 1988)
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Theatre Review: Snow White
(Theatre Ireland, Summer 1988)
David Calvert
Theatre Review: Snow White
(The Irish Times, 28 June 1988)
David Nowlan
Performing Women in Tom Mac Intyre's Drama
SarahJane Scaife
Tom Mac Intyre and Theatre of the Image
Daniel Shea
139
145
165
167
170
171
176
178
180
181
198
Chapter 5: 'a gradle o' stories'
Programme Note: Kitty O'Shea
(Peacock Theatre, 1990)
Medbh McGuckian
Theatre Review: Kitty O'Shea
(Theatre Ireland, October 1990)
Victoria White
Theatre Review: Fine Day for a Hunt
(The Galway Advertiser, 23 July 1992)
Jeff O'Connell
Theatre Review: Chickadee
(The Sunday Tribune, 23 May 1993)
Jocelyn Clarke
Programme Note:
'The Night Before the Morning After' (Peacock Theatre, 1994)
Ciaran Carson
'Between two languages ...'
Olwen Fouéré
Images of Sheep's Milk on the Boil
Amelia Stein
Second Opinion: Sheep's Milk on the Boil
(The Irish Times, 2 March 1994)
Fintan O'Toole
Good Evening, Mr Collins
Christina Hunt Mahony
Theatre Review: Good Evening, Mr Collins
(The Irish Times, 12 October 1995)
David Nowlan
Programme Note: 'The Bandit Pen' (Peacock Theatre, October 1995)
Marina Carr
215
218
220
221
223
224
226
237
239
244
245
Stories Happen to Storytellers
Karen Ardiff
A Conversation with Carolyn Swift, Tom Mac Intyre, and John Scott on You Must Tell the Bees
(UCD Forum, 1996)
Deirdre Mulrooney
'The Magic of Dissonance'
(The Irish Times, 24 September 1996)
Helen Meany
Theatre Review: The Chirpaun
(The Irish Times, 4 December 1997)
Victoria White
Theatre Review: Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire
(The Irish Times, 20 April 1998)
Diarmuid Johnson
Programme Note: Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire
(Peacock Theatre, 1998)
Alan Titley
Choreographing Cúirt an Mheán Oíche
Finola Cronin
247
256
263
265
266
267
270
Chapter 6: 'between the worlds'
Theatre Review: The Gallant John-Joe
(The Irish Times, 29 November 2001)
Fintan O'Toole
Ballet in the Bog
(The Guardian, 23 February 2005)
John Mahoney
Mapping the World of Bridgie Cleary
Joe Van k
279
280
285
Theatre Review: What Happened Bridgie Cleary
(The Irish Times, 29 May 2005)
Fintan O'Toole
Theatre Review: What Happened Bridgie Cleary
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 19 May 2005)
Patrick Lonergan
Theatre Review: What Happened Bridgie Cleary
(The Guardian, 29 April 2005)
Karen Fricker
298
299
301
Anarchic and Strange: Only an Apple
302
Bernadette Sweeney and Marie Kelly Cartmell
with
Selina
Theatre Review: Only an Apple
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 6 May 2009)
314
Patrick Lonergan
Letters to the Editor
316
Eilish MacCurtain Pearse Augustine Martin Sebastian Barry
The Hurt Mind (1985) Tom Mac Intyre
321
Notes on the Contributors 323
Index 327
CONTENTS
List of illustrations Acknowledgements
xvi xix
Preface/Réamhrá
Fiach Mac Conghail
Introduction: 'Strays from the ether'
Bernadette Sweeney Marie Kelly
Chapter 1: 'Someone opened a door ... And now the traffic's racin' ...'
A Vibrant Presence:
A Biography of Tom Mac Intyre's Work
Bernadette Sweeney
Introduction to The Harper's Turn
Seamus Heaney
In Conversation with Tom Mac Intyre
Vincent Woods
Tom Mac Intyre: Border Country Bandit
Tom Hickey
xxiii
1
23
43
44
55
x The Theatre of Tom Mac Intyre
Chapter 2: 'a conspirator's gleam'
The Long Surrender: Finding a Theatrical Voice 65
Through the Plays of the 1970s
Ben Francombe
Theatre Review: 'Salome gets Modern Treatment' 81
(The Irish Independent, 10 May 1977)
Desmond Rushe
Theatre Review: Doobally/Black Way 81
(The Irish Times, 9 October 1979)
David Nowlan
Theatre Review: 'A Nimble Mime at the Peacock' 82
(The Evening Press, August 1976)
Michael Sheridan
Chapter 3: 'Down the ruckety pass'
A Director's Note 85
Patrick Mason
On Design 87
Environmental Design and the Plays of Tom Mac Intyre
Bronwen Casson
Environmental Design in the Dublin Theatre 89
John Barrett
Theatre Review: 'A Great Poem Without Words' 93
(The Irish Press, 11 May 1983)
Gerard Stembridge
Theatre Review: 'Images of Fragmented Ireland' 94
(The Sunday Independent, 20 July 1986)
Colm Tóibín
Theatre Review: The Great Hunger
(The Guardian, 13 August 1986)
Michael Billington
Theatre Review: 'People Hungering After Humanity' (The Guardian, 27 November 1986)
Nicholas de Jongh
In the Beginning Was ... the Image ... (Theatre Ireland, 1984)
Kathryn Holmquist
Programme Note: 'The Hurt Mind' (Peacock Theatre, 1986)
Dermot Healy
Programme Note:
'The Ghost, the Gate and the Go Beyant' (Peacock Theatre, 1986)
Michael Harding
Oedipal Desire in Mac Intyre's The Great Hunger: A Palaeo Postmodern Perspective
Catriona Ryan
'What Shall I Wear, Darling, to The Great Hunger?'
Paul Durcan
95
96
98
105
109
111
125
Chapter 4: 'Warming to the fray'
Theatre Review: The Bearded Lady
(Theatre Ireland, Autumn 1984)
Joseph Mc Minn
Theatre Review: The Bearded Lady
(The Irish Press, 12 September 1984)
Peter Thompson
In Conversation with Bríd Ní Neachtain
Marie Kelly
133
135
136
The Lunatics in the Basement:
Madness in Mac Intyre
Dermod Moore
New Dimensions: Spaces for Play in the Theatre of Tom Mac Intyre
Marie Kelly
Theatre Review: Rise Up Lovely Sweeney
(The Sunday Tribune, 15 September 1985)
Fintan O'Toole
Programme Note: Dance for your Daddy 'Must you Play the Piano in your Nightgown?' (Peacock Theatre, 1987)
Dermot Healy
Theatre Review: Dance for your Daddy
(The Irish Times, 3 March 1987)
David Nowlan
Scenes from Snow White
Tom Mac Intyre
Programme Note: 'Chomh geal le Sneachta' (Peacock Theatre, 1988)
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Theatre Review: Snow White
(Theatre Ireland, Summer 1988)
David Calvert
Theatre Review: Snow White
(The Irish Times, 28 June 1988)
David Nowlan
Performing Women in Tom Mac Intyre's Drama
SarahJane Scaife
Tom Mac Intyre and Theatre of the Image
Daniel Shea
139
145
165
167
170
171
176
178
180
181
198
Chapter 5: 'a gradle o' stories'
Programme Note: Kitty O'Shea
(Peacock Theatre, 1990)
Medbh McGuckian
Theatre Review: Kitty O'Shea
(Theatre Ireland, October 1990)
Victoria White
Theatre Review: Fine Day for a Hunt
(The Galway Advertiser, 23 July 1992)
Jeff O'Connell
Theatre Review: Chickadee
(The Sunday Tribune, 23 May 1993)
Jocelyn Clarke
Programme Note:
'The Night Before the Morning After' (Peacock Theatre, 1994)
Ciaran Carson
'Between two languages ...'
Olwen Fouéré
Images of Sheep's Milk on the Boil
Amelia Stein
Second Opinion: Sheep's Milk on the Boil
(The Irish Times, 2 March 1994)
Fintan O'Toole
Good Evening, Mr Collins
Christina Hunt Mahony
Theatre Review: Good Evening, Mr Collins
(The Irish Times, 12 October 1995)
David Nowlan
Programme Note: 'The Bandit Pen' (Peacock Theatre, October 1995)
Marina Carr
215
218
220
221
223
224
226
237
239
244
245
Stories Happen to Storytellers
Karen Ardiff
A Conversation with Carolyn Swift, Tom Mac Intyre, and John Scott on You Must Tell the Bees
(UCD Forum, 1996)
Deirdre Mulrooney
'The Magic of Dissonance'
(The Irish Times, 24 September 1996)
Helen Meany
Theatre Review: The Chirpaun
(The Irish Times, 4 December 1997)
Victoria White
Theatre Review: Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire
(The Irish Times, 20 April 1998)
Diarmuid Johnson
Programme Note: Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire
(Peacock Theatre, 1998)
Alan Titley
Choreographing Cúirt an Mheán Oíche
Finola Cronin
247
256
263
265
266
267
270
Chapter 6: 'between the worlds'
Theatre Review: The Gallant John-Joe
(The Irish Times, 29 November 2001)
Fintan O'Toole
Ballet in the Bog
(The Guardian, 23 February 2005)
John Mahoney
Mapping the World of Bridgie Cleary
Joe Van k
279
280
285
Theatre Review: What Happened Bridgie Cleary
(The Irish Times, 29 May 2005)
Fintan O'Toole
Theatre Review: What Happened Bridgie Cleary
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 19 May 2005)
Patrick Lonergan
Theatre Review: What Happened Bridgie Cleary
(The Guardian, 29 April 2005)
Karen Fricker
298
299
301
Anarchic and Strange: Only an Apple
302
Bernadette Sweeney and Marie Kelly Cartmell
with
Selina
Theatre Review: Only an Apple
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 6 May 2009)
314
Patrick Lonergan
Letters to the Editor
316
Eilish MacCurtain Pearse Augustine Martin Sebastian Barry
The Hurt Mind (1985) Tom Mac Intyre
321
Notes on the Contributors 323
Index 327
List of illustrations Acknowledgements
xvi xix
Preface/Réamhrá
Fiach Mac Conghail
Introduction: 'Strays from the ether'
Bernadette Sweeney Marie Kelly
Chapter 1: 'Someone opened a door ... And now the traffic's racin' ...'
A Vibrant Presence:
A Biography of Tom Mac Intyre's Work
Bernadette Sweeney
Introduction to The Harper's Turn
Seamus Heaney
In Conversation with Tom Mac Intyre
Vincent Woods
Tom Mac Intyre: Border Country Bandit
Tom Hickey
xxiii
1
23
43
44
55
x The Theatre of Tom Mac Intyre
Chapter 2: 'a conspirator's gleam'
The Long Surrender: Finding a Theatrical Voice 65
Through the Plays of the 1970s
Ben Francombe
Theatre Review: 'Salome gets Modern Treatment' 81
(The Irish Independent, 10 May 1977)
Desmond Rushe
Theatre Review: Doobally/Black Way 81
(The Irish Times, 9 October 1979)
David Nowlan
Theatre Review: 'A Nimble Mime at the Peacock' 82
(The Evening Press, August 1976)
Michael Sheridan
Chapter 3: 'Down the ruckety pass'
A Director's Note 85
Patrick Mason
On Design 87
Environmental Design and the Plays of Tom Mac Intyre
Bronwen Casson
Environmental Design in the Dublin Theatre 89
John Barrett
Theatre Review: 'A Great Poem Without Words' 93
(The Irish Press, 11 May 1983)
Gerard Stembridge
Theatre Review: 'Images of Fragmented Ireland' 94
(The Sunday Independent, 20 July 1986)
Colm Tóibín
Theatre Review: The Great Hunger
(The Guardian, 13 August 1986)
Michael Billington
Theatre Review: 'People Hungering After Humanity' (The Guardian, 27 November 1986)
Nicholas de Jongh
In the Beginning Was ... the Image ... (Theatre Ireland, 1984)
Kathryn Holmquist
Programme Note: 'The Hurt Mind' (Peacock Theatre, 1986)
Dermot Healy
Programme Note:
'The Ghost, the Gate and the Go Beyant' (Peacock Theatre, 1986)
Michael Harding
Oedipal Desire in Mac Intyre's The Great Hunger: A Palaeo Postmodern Perspective
Catriona Ryan
'What Shall I Wear, Darling, to The Great Hunger?'
Paul Durcan
95
96
98
105
109
111
125
Chapter 4: 'Warming to the fray'
Theatre Review: The Bearded Lady
(Theatre Ireland, Autumn 1984)
Joseph Mc Minn
Theatre Review: The Bearded Lady
(The Irish Press, 12 September 1984)
Peter Thompson
In Conversation with Bríd Ní Neachtain
Marie Kelly
133
135
136
The Lunatics in the Basement:
Madness in Mac Intyre
Dermod Moore
New Dimensions: Spaces for Play in the Theatre of Tom Mac Intyre
Marie Kelly
Theatre Review: Rise Up Lovely Sweeney
(The Sunday Tribune, 15 September 1985)
Fintan O'Toole
Programme Note: Dance for your Daddy 'Must you Play the Piano in your Nightgown?' (Peacock Theatre, 1987)
Dermot Healy
Theatre Review: Dance for your Daddy
(The Irish Times, 3 March 1987)
David Nowlan
Scenes from Snow White
Tom Mac Intyre
Programme Note: 'Chomh geal le Sneachta' (Peacock Theatre, 1988)
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Theatre Review: Snow White
(Theatre Ireland, Summer 1988)
David Calvert
Theatre Review: Snow White
(The Irish Times, 28 June 1988)
David Nowlan
Performing Women in Tom Mac Intyre's Drama
SarahJane Scaife
Tom Mac Intyre and Theatre of the Image
Daniel Shea
139
145
165
167
170
171
176
178
180
181
198
Chapter 5: 'a gradle o' stories'
Programme Note: Kitty O'Shea
(Peacock Theatre, 1990)
Medbh McGuckian
Theatre Review: Kitty O'Shea
(Theatre Ireland, October 1990)
Victoria White
Theatre Review: Fine Day for a Hunt
(The Galway Advertiser, 23 July 1992)
Jeff O'Connell
Theatre Review: Chickadee
(The Sunday Tribune, 23 May 1993)
Jocelyn Clarke
Programme Note:
'The Night Before the Morning After' (Peacock Theatre, 1994)
Ciaran Carson
'Between two languages ...'
Olwen Fouéré
Images of Sheep's Milk on the Boil
Amelia Stein
Second Opinion: Sheep's Milk on the Boil
(The Irish Times, 2 March 1994)
Fintan O'Toole
Good Evening, Mr Collins
Christina Hunt Mahony
Theatre Review: Good Evening, Mr Collins
(The Irish Times, 12 October 1995)
David Nowlan
Programme Note: 'The Bandit Pen' (Peacock Theatre, October 1995)
Marina Carr
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Stories Happen to Storytellers
Karen Ardiff
A Conversation with Carolyn Swift, Tom Mac Intyre, and John Scott on You Must Tell the Bees
(UCD Forum, 1996)
Deirdre Mulrooney
'The Magic of Dissonance'
(The Irish Times, 24 September 1996)
Helen Meany
Theatre Review: The Chirpaun
(The Irish Times, 4 December 1997)
Victoria White
Theatre Review: Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire
(The Irish Times, 20 April 1998)
Diarmuid Johnson
Programme Note: Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire
(Peacock Theatre, 1998)
Alan Titley
Choreographing Cúirt an Mheán Oíche
Finola Cronin
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Chapter 6: 'between the worlds'
Theatre Review: The Gallant John-Joe
(The Irish Times, 29 November 2001)
Fintan O'Toole
Ballet in the Bog
(The Guardian, 23 February 2005)
John Mahoney
Mapping the World of Bridgie Cleary
Joe Van k
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Theatre Review: What Happened Bridgie Cleary
(The Irish Times, 29 May 2005)
Fintan O'Toole
Theatre Review: What Happened Bridgie Cleary
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 19 May 2005)
Patrick Lonergan
Theatre Review: What Happened Bridgie Cleary
(The Guardian, 29 April 2005)
Karen Fricker
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Anarchic and Strange: Only an Apple
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Bernadette Sweeney and Marie Kelly Cartmell
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Selina
Theatre Review: Only an Apple
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 6 May 2009)
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Patrick Lonergan
Letters to the Editor
316
Eilish MacCurtain Pearse Augustine Martin Sebastian Barry
The Hurt Mind (1985) Tom Mac Intyre
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Notes on the Contributors 323
Index 327