This book addresses the notion posed by Thomas Kilroy in his definition of a playwrights creative process: We write plays, I feel, in order to populate the stage. It gathers eclectic reflections on contemporary Irish theatre from both Irish theatre practitioners and international academics. The eighteen contributions offer innovative perspectives on Irish theatre since the early 1990s up to the present, testifying to the development of themes explored by emerging and established playwrights as well as to the (r)evolutions in practices and approaches to the stage that have taken place in the last thirty years.
This cross-disciplinary collection devotes as much attention to contextual questions and approaches to the stage in practice as it does to the play text in its traditional and revised forms. The essays and interviews encourage dialectic exchange between analytical studies on contemporary Irish theatre and contributions by theatre practitioners.
Foreword; Thomas Kilroy.-?1. Introduction;?Anne Etienne and Thierry Dubost.-?2. Innovation meets Evocation: Tom Mac Intyres plays at the Peacock Theatre; Marie Kelly.-?3. From Dementia to Utopia: Tragedy and Transcendence in Frank McGuinness The Hanging Gardens;?Matthieu Kolb.-?4. Women and Scarecrows: Marina Carrs Stage Bodies;?Mary Noonan.-?5. McDonaghs True, Lonesome West;?Maria Isabel Seguro.-?6. The physical and verbal theatre of Michael West;?Nicholas Grene.-?7. A Dark Rosebud on the Irish Stage: Ail?s N? R?ains Tallest Man in the World;?Thierry Dubost.-?8. Death of A Playwright;?Geoff Gould.-?9. Looking back and forward on sound design: Irish theatre transformed;?Cormac O'Connor.-?10. Lightning in a Bottle: the BrokenCrow Experiment;?Ronan FitzGibbon.-?11. Interview with Br?d ? Gallchoir;?Anne Etienne and Thierry Dubost.-?12. Interview with Pat Kinevane;?Anne Etienne.-?13. Interview with Mark ORlCß
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