Theatre and Globalization Irish Drama in the Celtic Tiger Era [Hardcover]

Globalization is transforming theatre everywhere. As writers seek to exploit new opportunities to produce their work internationally, audiences are seeing the world and the stage differently. This groundbreaking study explores these developments, placing them in the context of the transformation of Ireland since the early 1990s.Contents Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction Globalization and Irish Theatre Globalizing Irish Drama: Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa , 1990/1999 Globalizing National Theatres: Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars , 1926/1991/2002 Historicizing the Brand: Dion Boucicault's The Shaughraun , 1874/2004 Globalization and Authorship: Martin McDonagh, 1996-2005 Globalization and Cultural Exchange: Tony Kushner's Angels in America , Dublin, 1995 Globalizing Gender Race and the Brand: Irish Theatre in 2005 Conclusion: Our Global Theatre Works Cited Index

Winner of the 2008 Theatre Book Prize, awarded by the Society for Theatre Research

Shortlisted for the ESSE Book Prize 2010

'A remarkable study of Irish theatre overwhelming to read.' Steven Berkoff

'Deftly adapting Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Patrick Lonergan identifies commodification and branding as the determining agents in the creation and circulation of modern theatre and, blending textual analysis with globalisation theory, provides the paradigm for a new phase of Irish theatre criticism.' - Professor Shaun Richards, Staffordshire University

'Simply the best and most thought-provoking analysis we've had of a central tension in Irish theatre (and indeed in the wider Irish culture) over the last 15 years.' - Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times

'This is an intelligent book and one with a mission statement it's a clarion call for Irish theatre makers to resist the global homogenisation of culture.' - Emilie Pine, Irish Theatre Magazine