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Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century

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By (author): Nicholas Grene

Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century is the first in-depth study of the subject. It analyses the ways in which theatre in Ireland has developed since the 1990s when emerging playwrights Martin McDonagh, Conor McPherson, and Enda Walsh turned against the tradition of lyrical eloquence with a harsh and broken dramatic language. Companies such as Blue Raincoat, the Corn Exchange, and Pan Pan pioneered an avant-garde dramaturgy that no longer privileged the playwright. This led to new styles of production of classic Irish works, including the plays of Synge, mounted in their entirety by Druid. The changed environment led to a re-imagining of past Irish history in the work of Rough Magic and ANU, plays by Owen McCafferty, Stacey Gregg, and David Ireland, dramatizing the legacy of the Troubles, and adaptations of Greek tragedy by Marina Carr and others reflecting the conditions of modern Ireland. From 2015, the movement #WakingTheFeminists led to a sharpened awareness of gender. While male playwrights showed a toxic masculinity on the stage, a generation of female dramatists including Carr, Gregg, and Nancy Harris gave voice to the experiences of women long suppressed in conservative Ireland. For three separate periods, 2006, 2016, 2020-2, the author served as one of the judges for the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards, attending all new productions across the island of Ireland. This allowed him to provide the detailed overview of the 'state of play' of Irish theatre in each of those times which punctuate the book as one of its most innovative features. Drawing also on interviews with Ireland's leading theatre makers, Grene provides readers with a close-up understanding of Irish theatre in a period when Ireland became for the first time a fully modernized, secular, and multi-ethnic society. See more
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Will deliver when available. Publication date 26 Sep 2024

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  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Sep 2024
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780198893073

About Nicholas Grene

Nicholas Grene with a doctorate from Cambridge taught at the University of Liverpool before being appointed at Trinity College Dublin where he held the Professorship of English Literature (1867) from 1999 to his retirement in 2015. A member of the Royal Irish Academy he has published widely on drama and on Irish literature; his books include The Politics of Irish Drama (1999) Shakespeare's Serial History Plays (2002) Yeats's Poetic Codes (2009) and Farming in Modern Irish Literature (2021). He has been an invited lecturer in many countries and a visiting professor at Dartmouth and the Sorbonne.

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