Devised performance in Irish theatre: histories and contemporary practice
- Submitting institution
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University of Lincoln
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 22960
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Carysfort Press
- ISBN
- 9781909325784
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- Devised Performance in Irish Theatre (2015) was motivated by the question of how devising knowledge might challenge the traditional structures, roles, hierarchies, and histories of Irish theatre. The editors, O’Gorman and McIvor, conceived this enquiry in response to an apparent shift in the landscape of Irish theatre since the turn of the twenty-first century, following the increasing prominence of several Dublin-based theatre companies including ANU Productions and Brokentalkers. Such companies engage in experimental, collaborative, and inter-disciplinary arts practices informed by performance within and beyond Europe. O’Gorman and McIvor succeeded in tracing this kind of practice back through the twentieth century (especially since the 1970s) and across the island of Ireland – including work of varying community and professional levels in the West of Ireland and Northern Ireland as well as the major urban centres of Dublin and Cork. Their substantial co-written introduction, together with their curation of the collection, addresses significant gaps at the intersections of Irish Studies, Theatre Practice, and Cultural Studies. Brian Singleton for Theatre Journal (68:3, p.478) considered their work ‘impressive’ in how it ‘historicizes, problematizes, and critiques existing literature, [offering] an expansive and inclusive approach to the explosion of devised theatre-making’. Essays deemed to best address themes of Devising as Collaborative Art; Formal Politics; Regional Practices; and Northern Approaches were selected via responses to a CFP and were blind peer reviewed. Practitioner interviews were arranged and conducted in line with institutional ethical procedures. The book appears on Irish Studies as well as anglophone and European theatre syllabi on HE programmes from (e.g.) Trinity College Dublin, IT Sligo, and Queens University Belfast to Charles University Prague, Radboud University Nijmegen, and University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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- Non-English
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