Ciara L Murphy

Performing Social Change on the Island of Ireland

From Republic to Pandemic

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the relationship between moments of significant social change on the island of Ireland and performance practice during the 20th and 21st centuries. It examines how moments of significant change influence not only the content of performance practice but also the form and function of theatre production and reception.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781032076492
• ISBN-10: 1032076496
• Artikelnr.: 67253055

Autorenporträt

Ciara L. Murphy is an Assistant Lecturer of Drama and Theatre at Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: States of Change
Temporal Switch Points
The Politics of Naming Space
A Spectrum of Participation
Public Space as Performance Space
Structure and Design
Chapter Summaries
Chapter 1. Storytelling and Performance Post-Good Friday Agreement
A Marriage of Equals?
Troubled Spaces
Chapter 2. Tourism as Performance: Moving into a new Millennium
Papering Over the Cracks
The Trouble with Tourism
Performing the Legacy of the Past
Chapter 3. 'A Bevy of Beauties': Feminism, Double Jeopardy, and Charabanc
Theatre Company
Creating Space for the Personal
A Feminist Approach to Creating Performance
Charabanc Theatre Company
Double Jeopardy: Women's Experience in the North of Ireland
Lay Up Your Ends (1983) and Gold in the Streets (1986)
Community Spaces
Chapter 4. 'Soujourned in Her Majesty's Prison': The Performative Actvism
of Margaretta D'Arcy
The National Question
The Collision of Activism and Performance
Dirty Protest
Writing as Cultural Resistance
A 'Feminist Tour of Duty'
Chapter 5. Reclaiming Personal Histories Through Performance
A Volatile Nation
Radical Commemoration
Public and Embodied Sites of Practice
Moments of Communion
Chapter 6. A Dying Tiger: Performing Ireland's Housing Crisis
Neo-liberal Theatre Production
Critique as Commemoration
Hideously Inequitable Nation
Chapter 7. "Virtual Reroutings": Performing Ireland's Social Revolution
Pantigate
#WakingTheFeminists
Maser's Mural
Chapter 8. "Survival is Insufficient": Ireland's Pandemic Performance
#CovideoParty: Creating a Community Audience Online.
Dear Ireland (2020) - A Postcard from Pandemic Ireland
To be (or not to be) a Machine
Index