Performing Social Change on the Island of Ireland

From Republic to Pandemic

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvCiara L. Murphy

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This book examines the relationship between moments of significant social change on the island of Ireland and performance practice during the twentieth and twenty-first 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.This book investigates how the Troubles and subsequent Peace Process, Second-Wave Feminism, the Celtic Tiger and neoliberalism, social revolution, and the COVID-19 pandemic impacts the form and function of performance practice across the island of Ireland. Although these forms of theatre and performance making refer to varied and distinct lineages of practice internationally, there are key parallels that compel a study of their inter-relationality in a specific Irish context.This book explores how the performance of Ireland illuminates histories and stories that are on the margins, illuminating the lived realities of everyday life through the presentation of moments of violence, oppression, and trauma as something that is as important as the larger narratives often ascribed to nationhood. This book asks how performance practice engages with and informs moments of major social change on the island of Ireland through the distinct yet intersecting lenses of place, performance form, and social context over the course of almost a century of Irish theatre and performance practice.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-10-09
Mått156 x 234 x 10 mm
Vikt280 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Antal sidor162
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032078151

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AcknowledgementsIntroduction: States of ChangeTemporal Switch PointsThe Politics of Naming SpaceA Spectrum of ParticipationPublic Space as Performance SpaceStructure and DesignChapter SummariesChapter 1. Storytelling and Performance Post-Good Friday AgreementA Marriage of Equals?Troubled SpacesChapter 2. Tourism as Performance: Moving into a new MillenniumPapering Over the CracksThe Trouble with TourismPerforming the Legacy of the PastChapter 3. ‘A Bevy of Beauties’: Feminism, Double Jeopardy, and Charabanc Theatre CompanyCreating Space for the PersonalA Feminist Approach to Creating PerformanceCharabanc Theatre CompanyDouble Jeopardy: Women’s Experience in the North of IrelandLay Up Your Ends (1983) and Gold in the Streets (1986)Community SpacesChapter 4. ‘Soujourned in Her Majesty’s Prison’: The Performative Actvism of Margaretta D’ArcyThe National QuestionThe Collision of Activism and PerformanceDirty ProtestWriting as Cultural ResistanceA ‘Feminist Tour of Duty’Chapter 5. Reclaiming Personal Histories Through PerformanceA Volatile NationRadical CommemorationPublic and Embodied Sites of PracticeMoments of CommunionChapter 6. A Dying Tiger: Performing Ireland’s Housing CrisisNeo-liberal Theatre ProductionCritique as CommemorationHideously Inequitable NationChapter 7. "Virtual Reroutings": Performing Ireland’s Social RevolutionPantigate#WakingTheFeministsMaser’s MuralChapter 8. "Survival is Insufficient": Ireland’s Pandemic Performance#CovideoParty: Creating a Community Audience Online. Dear Ireland (2020) – A Postcard from Pandemic IrelandTo be (or not to be) a MachineIndex