Representations of Justice in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Film and Theatre

Maha Alatawi finished her Ph.D. in drama studies at University College Dublin in Ireland. She is currently an associate professor at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia. She has three book articles published in The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance, The Theatre and Films of Conor McPherson: Conspicuous Communities, and Negotiating Age: Aging and Ageism in Contemporary Literature and Theatre. She has abstracts and articles published or accepted for publication as book and journal articles. She has papers presented in conferences in Dublin, Galway, Madrid, London, Montreal, and New York. She won the award for best paper/best presentation in the conference in Madrid. Eamonn Jordan is Professor in Drama Studies at the School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin. He has edited/co-edited a number of collections of essays. His books include The Feast of Famine: The Plays of Frank McGuinness (1997), Dissident Dramaturgies: Contemporary Irish Theatre (2010), From Leenane to LA: The Theatre and Cinema of Martin McDonagh (2014), The Theatre and Films of Conor McPherson: Conspicuous Communities (2019), Justice in the Plays and Films of Martin McDonagh (2019), and Irish Theatre: Interrogating Intersecting Inequalities (2023).

• Introduction - Pedzisai Maedza 1. Art(ists) in the Dock in Post-Apartheid South Africa - Eugene McNulty 2. Haunted by Justice: The Politics of Law in Eoin MacNamee’s Blue Trilogy - Justine Zapin 3. Staging ‘Justice’: The Paradox of Law and Morality in George Bernard Shaw’s Courtroom Dramas - Maha Alatawi 4. Underlying Inequalities: Unpacking Zombie Theory and Social Justice in All of Us Are Dead - Eva Urban 5. In Justice and Intersectionality: Performing Activism against Racism online in Northern Ireland - Olfa Gandouz 6. In Defence of the Downtrodden: The Politics of (In) justice in Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape - Samantha Cade 7. ANU’s Immersive, Verbatim and Site-Specific Staging of The Historic Anglo-Irish Treaty Debates: A Social Justice Production - Peter Charleton 8. Cú Chulainn Goes to Hollywood: Hero as Agent/Bringer of Justice and as the Foe of Evil - Britta Olinder 9. ‘The State of the Prisons’: Justice, History and Drama in Sinéad Morrissey’s poem - Helena Young 10. Breaking Boundaries: A Fresh Look at Brokentalkers’ The Examination - Rachel Fehily 11. Representations of the Broken Modern American Family on Screen - Wahaj Unnisa Warda 12. Longing to Belong – Otherness Post Partition and in Contemporary Hindi Movie Mulk - Clara Mallon 13. Performing Classed (In)Justice: The Blue Boy, Natural History of Hope, and The Apology - Eamonn Jordan 14. The Mistrust of the Law and Fixation of Disorder in Irish Theatre - Fawziah Harshan 15. A Comparative Analysis of Justice, Motherhood and Hope in the novel A Mercy and the film Nowhere - Salomé Paul 16. The City of (In)Justice: Troy on the Contemporary Stage