Gender Politics of Contemporary Performance in Northern Ireland

Alexander Coupe is Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies in the Department of English at the University of Liverpool, UK. His research and teaching encompass contemporary theatre and performance in Britain and Ireland, with an emphasis on gender, conflict transformation and cultural policy.  Before working in Liverpool, he was an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he also acquired his PhD. His work has been published in a range of academic journals including Research in Drama Education, Cultural Trends, and Études irlandaises.

• Ch 1: Interdependent Inequalities & Inequalities of Dependency.- Ch 2: Troubled Masculinities: Theatre and the Uses and Abuses of Crisis.- Ch 3: Staging Grief and Grievance: Gender, Remembrance and Remembrance Agendas.- Ch 4: Stitched Up: Class and Compromise in Feminist Performance Making.- Ch 5: ‘It’s All Quite Ordinary’: Queering Normalisation in the ‘Post-Conflict’ City.- Ch 6: Resolutely Entangled: Performing Borders in the Shadow of Brexit.