‘Written in the form of a symposium, a government agency brings together a group fo experts to discuss a strategy for dealing with the ageing population.’
Trans: Dan Farrelly
Modern Death is written in the form of a symposium, in which a government agency brings together a group of experts to discuss a strategy for dealing with an ageing population. The speakers take up the thread of the ongoing debates about care for the aged and about euthanasia. In dark satirical mode the author shows what grim developments are possible. The theme of a 'final solution' is mentioned, though the connection with Hitler is explicitly denied. The most inhuman crimes against human dignity are discussed in the symposium as if they were a necessary condition of future progress. The fiercely ironical treatment of the material tears off the thin veil that disguises the specious arguments and insidious expressions of concern for the well-being of the younger generation. Though the text was written nearly thirty years ago, the play has a terrifyingly modern relevance.ISBN 9781904505280
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‘Collection of fourteen new essays exploring Irish theatre from exciting new perspectives.’
Patrick Lonergan & Riana O'Dwyer
How has Irish theatre been received internationally - and, as the country becomes more multicultural, how will international theatre influence the development of drama in Ireland? As Ireland changes, how should we think about the works of familiar figures - writers like Synge, O'Casey, Friel, Murphy, Carr and McGuinness? Is the distinction between popular and literary drama tenable in a Celtic Tiger Ireland where the arts and economics are becoming increasingly intertwined? And is it time to remember less established Irish writers? Drawing togther a range of international experts, this book aims to answer these and many other important questions.ISBN 978-1-904505-25-9
Cost €20.00
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‘Using the work of Beckett as a springboard, International and Irish scholars discuss post-1950s Irish Theatre on the page and on the stage.’
Hiroko Mikami, Minako Okamuro and Naoko Yagi
The collection focuses primarily on Irish playwrights and their work, both in text and on the stage during the latter half of the twentieth century. The central figure is Samuel Beckett, but the contributors freely draw on Beckett and his work provides a springboard to discuss contemporary playwrights such as Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness, Marina Carr and Conor McPherson amongst others. Contributors include: Anthony Roche, Hiroko Mikami, Naoko Yagi, Cathy Leeney, Joseph Long, Noreem Doody, Minako Okamuro, Christopher Murray, Futoshi Sakauchi and Declan KiberdISBN 978-1-904505-23-5
Cost €20.00
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‘The Work Has Value’
Edited by Donald E. Morse, Csilla Bertha, and Mária KurdiI
Brian Friel's Dramatic Artistry presents a refreshingly broad range of voices: new work from some of the leading English-speaking authorities on Friel, and fascinating essays from scholars in Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Hungary. This book will deepen our knowledge and enjoyment of Friel's work.ISBN 1-904505-17-1
Cost €30.00
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Edited By Nicholas Grene and Chris Morash
'Touring has been at the strategic heart of Druid's artistic policy since the early eighties. Everyone has the right to see professional theatre in their own communities. Irish theatre on tour is a crucial part of Irish theatre as a whole' - Garry HynesISBN 1-904505-13-9
Cost €20.00
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‘'A World Of Savage Stories' (Reprint)’
Edited By Lilian Chambers and Eamonn Jordan
The book is a vital response to the many challenges set by McDonagh for those involved in the production and reception of his work. Critics and commentators from around the world offer a diverse range of often provocative approaches. What is not surprising is the focus and commitment of the engagement, given the controversial and stimulating nature of the work.ISBN 1-904505-19-8
Cost €35.00
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‘Essays on the Writings of Sebastian Barry’
Edited with an introduction by Christina Hunt Mahony
The essays address Barry's engagement with the contemporary cultural debate in Ireland and also with issues that inform postcolonial criticial theory.The range and selection of contributors has ensured a high level of critical expression and an insightful assessment of Barry and his works.ISBN 1-904505-18-X
Cost €20.00
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‘The essays collected here illustrate some of the range, complexity, and interest of Edna O'Brien as a fiction writer and dramatist’
Edited by Kathryn Laing Sinéad Mooney and Maureen O'Connor
The essays collected here illustrate some of the range, complexity, and interest of Edna O'Brien as a fiction writer and dramatist. They will contribute to a broader appreciation of her work and to an evolution of new critical approaches, as well as igniting more interest in the many unexplored areas of her considerable oeuvre.ISBN 1-904505-20-1
Cost €20.00
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‘Biography of an Abbey Playwright by Fiona Brennan With a Foreword by Fintan O'Toole’
'Fiona Brennan's...introduction to his considerable output allows us a much greater appreciation and understanding of Fitzmaurice, the one remaining under-celebrated genius of twentieth-century Irish drama'. Conall Morrison. This edition is a reprint of the 2005 publication, now in a new format, 208x157mm
ISBN 978-1-904505-16-7
Cost €20.00
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‘New Romanian Plays’
Edited by Andrei Marinescu
Four of the most promising Romanian playwrights, young and very young, are in this collection, each one with a specific way of seeing the Romanian reality, each one with a style of communicating an articulated artistic vision of the society we are living in. Ion Caramitru, General Director Romanian National Theatre BucharestISBN 1-904505-15-5
Cost €10.00
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‘Paperback’
Edited by Colm Tóibín
Sebastian Barry, Marina Carr, Anthony Cronin, Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Hugo Hamilton, Joseph O'Connor, Mary O'Malley, Fintan O'Toole, Colm Toibin, Vincent Woods.ISBN 1-904505-14-7
Cost €18.00
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‘The collection draws on a wide range of perspectives and voices including critics, playwrights, directors and performers.’
Edited By Eric Weitz
The collection draws on a wide range of perspectives and voices including critics, playwrights, directors and performers. The result is a series of fascinating and provocative debates about the myriad functions of comedy in contemporary Irish theatre. - Anna McMullan
As Stan Laurel said, it takes only an onion to cry. Peel it and weep. Comedy is harder. These essays listen to the power of laughter. They hear the tough heart of Irish theatre - hard and wicked and funny. - Frank McGuinness
ISBN 1-904505-05-8
Cost €20.00
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‘Tom Murphy’
'The Drunkard is a wonderfully eloquent play. Murphy's ear is finely attuned to the glories and absurdities of melodramatic exclamation, and even while he is wringing out its ludicrous overstatement, he is also making it sing.' The Irish Times
ISBN 1-904505-09-0
Cost €10.00
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‘A delightful little book'……'Devitt's beautifully-articulated memories bring back extraordinary moments with glistening clarity'. Fintan O'Toole (Irish Times, Saturday Weekend Review)’
Nicholas Grene and Chris Morash
Transcript of conversations with John Devitt, academic and reviewer about his lifelong passion for the theatre. A fascinating and entertaining insight into Dublin theatre over the course of thirty years provided by Devitt's vivid reminiscences and astute observations. John Devitt was born in Dublin in 1941. He was educated by the Christian Brothers at O'Connell's School and was a graduate (English and Classics) of UCD. His teaching career began in 1963 in Glenstal Abbey. He later taught at St. Joseph's CBS in Fairview before becoming head of English at the Mater Dei Institute of Education in 1979, a post he held until his retirement in 2006. He regularly reviewed books, films and plays for a range of Irish journals and newspapers, radio and television programmes. The theatre was a lifelong passion, one he shared generously. John Devitt died in June 2007.ISBN 978-1-904505-33-4
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‘Talking About Tom Murphy is Shaped Around The Six Plays in the Landmark Abbey Theatre Murphy Season of 2001’
Edited By Nicholas Grene
Talking About Tom Murphy is shaped around the six plays in the landmark Abbey Theatre Murphy Season of 2001, assembling some of the best-known commentators on his work: Fintan O'Toole, Chris Morash, Lionel Pilkington, Alexandra Poulain, Shaun Richards, Nicholas Grene and Declan Kiberd.ISBN 0-9534-2579-7
Cost €15.00
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‘Fintan O'toole On Modern Irish Theatre’
Edited By Julia Furay & Redmond O'hanlon
This new book on the work of Fintan O'Toole, the internationally acclaimed theatre critic and cultural commentator, offers percussive analyses and assessments of the major plays and playwrights in the canon of modern Irish theatre. Fearless and provocative in his judgements, O'Toole is essential reading for anyone interested in criticism or in the current state of Irish theatre.ISBN 1-904505-03-1
Cost €20.00
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‘Soul Journeys In Contemporary Irish Theatre, by Anne F. O'Reilly.’
'Theatre as a space or container for sacred play allows audiences to glimpse mystery and to experience transformation. This book charts how Irish playwrights negotiate the labyrinth of the Irish soul and shows how their plays contribute to a poetics of Irish culture that enables a new imagining. Playwrights discussed are: McGuinness, Murphy, Friel, Le Marquand Hartigan, Burke Brogan, Harding, Meehan, Carr, Parker, Devlin, and Barry.'
ISBN 1-904505-07-4
Cost €25.00
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‘The Shakespearean Director, by Mike Wilcock’
This study of the Shakespearean director as viewed through various interpretations of HAMLET is a welcome addition to our understanding of how essential it is for a director to have a clear vision of a great play. It is an important study from which all of us who love Shakespeare and who understand the importance of continuing contemporary exploration may gain new insights. From the Foreword,by Joe Dowling,Artistic Director, The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, MN
ISBN 1-904505-00-7
Cost €20.00
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‘Before Rules Was made’
Edited By Anna Mcmullan & Cathy Leeney
As the first published collection of articles on the theatre of Marina Carr, this volume explores the world of Carr's theatrical imagination, the place of her plays in contemporary theatre in Ireland and abroad and the significance of her highly individual voice.ISBN 0-9534-2577-0
Cost €20.00
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‘Two Contemporary Irish Plays, by Andrew Hinds.’
The Starving, set during and after the siege of Derry in 1689, is a moving and engrossing drama of the emotional journey of two men.
October Song, a superbly written family drama set in real time in pre-ceasefire Derry.
ISBN 0-9534-2574-6
Cost €10.00
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‘Stages Of Mutability, edited By Helen Lojek.’
The first edited collection of essays about internationally renowned Irish playwright Frank McGuinness focuses on both performance and text. Interpreters come to diverse conclusions, creating a vigorous dialogue that enriches understanding and reflects a strong consensus about the value of McGuinness's complex work.
ISBN 1-904505-01-5
Cost €20.00
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‘Examination of Irish theatre as performed and received in England’
Richard Cave and Ben Levitas
Irish theatre in England has frequently illustrated the complex relations between two distinct cultures. How English reviewers and audiences interpreted Irish plays is often decidedly different from how the plays were read in performance in Ireland. How certain Irish performers have chosen to be understood in Dublin is not necessarily how audiences in London have perceived their constructed stage personae. Performativity often elides with performance in these contexts, making the underlying ideologies, political and aesthetic, intricate to analyse. The dramas play with images of Ireland and Irish character for distinct political purposes. Situating such performances in precise temporal contexts allows the multiple meanings inherent in play to fully emerge. Though a collection by diverse authors, the twelve essays in this volume – the second in the Irish Theatrical Diaspora Series – investigates these issues from a variety of perspectives that together chart the trajectory of Irish performance in England from the mid-nineteenth century till today. They are complemented by a chronological table of Irish plays produced in London since 1920ISBN 9781904505266
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‘Six New Plays by Irish Women’
Edited with an introduction by Cathy Leeney
A rich and funny, moving and theatrically exciting collection of plays by Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy, Síofra Campbell, Emma Donoghue, Anne Le Marquand Hartigan, Michelle Read and Dolores Walshe.ISBN 0-9534-2573-8
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‘Voices of Irish Theatre Practitioners’
Edited by Lilian Chambers & Ger Fitzgibbon
'This book is the right approach - asking practitioners what they feel.' Sebastian Barry, Playwright'... an invaluable and informative collection of interviews with those who make and shape the landscape of Irish Theatre.' Ben Barnes, Artistic Director of the Abbey Theatre.
ISBN 0-9534-2576-2
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‘Radio And The Dramatic Imagination, by Dermot Rattigan’
An innovative study of the challenges that radio drama poses to the creative imagination of the writer, the production team, and the listener.
'A remarkably fine study of radio drama - everywhere informed by the writer's professional experience of such drama in the making... A new theoretical and analytical approach - informative, illuminating and at all times readable.' - Richard Allen Cave
ISBN 0-9534-2575-4
Cost €20.00
Top‘Critical Essays On Contemporary Irish Theatre’
Edited By Eamonn Jordan
Best selling essays on the successes and debates of contemporary Irish theatre at home and abroad.Contributors include: Thomas Kilroy, Declan Hughes, Anna McMullan, Declan Kiberd, Deirdre Mulrooney, Fintan O'Toole, Christopher Murray, Caoimhe McAvinchey and Terry Eagleton.
ISBN 0-9534-2571-1
Cost €20.00
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