Contemporary Irish Documentary Theatre - Couverture rigide

Raftery, Mary; Murphy, Colin; Murphy, Jimmy; Lynch, Martin; Nunez, Domingos; Dyas, Grace

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1350094528 ISBN 13 : 9781350094529

Editeur : Methuen Drama, 2020

Synopsis

The first anthology of Irish documentary drama, this volume features five challenging plays by Irish writers, and one by an international author, interrogating and commenting on crucial events of Irish history and of the diaspora, with introductory essays by established academics.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Mary Raftery is an award-winning Senior Producer/Director with RTE television. She is a former Woman Journalist of the Year, and has won several national and international awards. States of Fear received the 1999 Justice Media Award and was shortlisted in the top ten European documentaries in the prestigious 1999 Prix Europa. She lives in Dublin.

Colin Murphy writes plays about politics, and journalism. He is the author of a series of plays on Irish political history: Haughey/Gregory, on the 1982 "Gregory Deal", Inside the GPO, on the Easter Rising, Guaranteed!, on the bank guarantee of 2008, and Bailed Out!, on the subsequent crisis and Troika "bailout" of 2010, all produced by Fishamble. He adapted the latter two for screen, as The Guarantee and The Bailout (both produced by John Kelleher Media). He adapted the Charlie Bird book A Day in May for the stage. His verbatim dramas, Jack Duggan's War and Judging Shaw (based on Fintan O'Toole's book of the same name) have been staged by ANU Productions. His short film Leave to Remain was made for RTÉ Storyland (produced by Treasure Entertainment). He writes a weekly column for the Sunday Business Post.

Jimmy Murphy's plays for the Abbey Theatre include Brothers ofthe Brush, 1993 (winner of the Dublin Festival Best newplay award.) A Picture of Paradise 1997, and The MuesliBelt, 2000 Other works include Aceldama, 1998,The Kings of the Kilburn High Road, 2000 (2001 TricycleTheatre, London) The CastlecomerJukebox,(2004)for Red Kettle and What's left of the Flag, 2010 Theatre Upstairs@ The Plough, (nominated for Best New Play, 2010 Irish Theatre awards.) In 2008an Irish language feature film version of The Kings of the Kilburn High Road;Kings, was Ireland's official entry into theBest foreign language Oscars category and a subsequent postage stamp was issuedin its honour. He is former writer in residence at NUI, Maynooth, a member ofthe Abbey Theatre's Advisory Council and a recipient of three Bursaries inliterature from the Arts Council/An ChomhairleEalaíon. In 2004 he was elected amember of Aosdána, the affiliation of Irish artists. In September 2011 Focus Theatre will premierehis new play The Hen NightEpiphany.

Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos is a faculty member in the Post-graduate Programme in English at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and production director of the Brazilian theatre company, Cia Ludens. She is co-editor of Ilha do Desterro 58 - Contemporary Irish Theatre (2010) and Ilha do Desterro 73.2 - Irish Theatrical Diaspora (forthcoming 2020), and organizer of Coleção Brian Friel (Hedra, 2013) and Coleção Tom Murphy (Iluminuras, forthcoming 2019).

Shaun Richards is Emeritus Professor of Irish Studies at Staffordshire University, UK. Professional Research Fellow at St Mary's University College, London, UK. He is editor of The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama (2004) and co-author with Chris Morash of Mapping Ireland: Theories of Space and Place (2013).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Methuen Drama
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1350094528
• ISBN 13: 9781350094529
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Éditeur: Bastos Dr Beatriz Kopschitz, Richards Professor Shaun
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